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What's Happening in the Miles Lab

Miles developed an instrument to take precise measurements of the Earth's magnetic field up to an altitude of 350 km onboard the ICI-4 sounding rocket.

Diary of a rocket scientist

This story from the University of Alberta's Folio newspaper describes Miles' work with CaNoRock, the Canada-Norway Student Sounding Rocket exchange program and the Investigation of Cusp Irregularities (ICI-4) mission. The goal of the ICI-4 campaign is to study space weather at high latitudes, and the interference it can have with GPS signals in the far North.