University of Iowa physicists have won funding from NASA to design, build, and test a compact instrument that can measure a wider spectrum of magnetic fields in space.

University of Iowa undergraduates Hannah Gulick and Josh Larson took part in an intensive, international science program to design, build, and fly a sounding rocket.

The combination of American electron clouds and Norwegian northern lights spells trouble for navigation and communication in the Northern regions. The ICI4 rocket will provide knowledge that can help us predict the weather in space.

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.