Articles from April 2026
What's Happening in the Miles Lab
UI researchers aid rocket launch in Norway
Monday, April 6, 2026
After a successful rocket launch to study the northern lights in Norway, University of Iowa researchers are awaiting findings from devices they built and attached to the rocket, which measure magnetic fields and electron energy. The ICI-5b rocket took off from the Andøya Space Center on March 11 to study how bursts of energy from the northern lights create turbulence in Earth’s upper atmosphere.