That was some time ago maybe back around the year 2000 or so! I was asked to assist due to strong radio station interference being received in the current receiver model which was either the VLF-2 or the very first attempts at the VLF-3. for more information.Hi Ian, I assisted back in the day with the front-end design of the VLF-3. Bill Pine is a teacher at Chaffey High School, Ontario, CA.
Note: Bill Taylor is Raytheon's Project Manager at SSDOO. Contact one of the authors for details.Įd. The local arrangements are the responsibility of the local organization. and will provide kits to schools and presentations on INSPIRE. INSPIRE offers workshops for any similarly sized teacher group in the U.S. Bill Pine attended the Workshop for INSPIRE and judged it to be a great success.
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Ten physical science and technology teachers and twenty students from seven schools in the Northside Independent School District met for two days to learn how to use INSPIRE in the classroom and, as an after school project, to put together INSPIRE kits and to make INSPIRE observations. INSPIRE held its fifth workshop in February and March 2001 in San Antonio, Texas. Therefore, the spacecraft will be at lower and lower altitudes over most INSPIRE observers as we move towards 2004. Perigee is recessing northward from the South Pole and will be over northern mid latitudes in 2004. IMAGE operations will hopefully start later this year to INSPIRE observers. Most of that ground-based data have yet to be analyzed because they were taken in Antarctica (perigee location) and are now in transit back to the U.S. Initial experiments were performed in August 2000 to test the operation of RPI at these frequencies. Therefore, it can be an excellent source of VLF radio waves. Because it is a radar, RPI has a transmitter that operates in the VLF region. Four SSDOO scientists are part of IMAGE, Jim Green, Shing Fung (part of the RPI Team), Bill Taylor and Sten Odenwald (RPI and Public Outreach, Education, Teaching and Reaching Youth (POETRY) - education and public outreach teams). The RPI is a magnetospheric radar to remotely sense the magnetospheric plasma using frequencies between 3 kHz and 3 MHz. IMAGE was launched just a year ago, on March 25, 2000, and carries an instrument called the Radio Plasma Imager (RPI).
The INSPIRE operations were scheduled during two weekends in the spring and two in the fall to maximize the opportunity for school groups to make observations of the waves expected to be generated by electron and plasma guns.Ī relatively new satellite, IMAGE is set to be the next ionospheric source of VLF radio waves that INSPIRE observers will attempt to detect. Mir has operated its electron and plasma guns over INSPIRE observers in the U.S., several former Soviet Union countries, and several European countries and at conjugate locations with Interball satellites since 1995. Stas Klimov of IKI is the Russian head of the project, called INTMINS (Interball-Mir-INSPIRE). When built, the receivers allow reception of natural and man-made radio waves in the audio region.Īn agreement between INSPIRE and IKI (Space Research Institute in Moscow) was made in 1995.
INSPIRE provides, at cost, VLF (Very Low Frequency - audio) radio receiver kits to students and others. Stimulating students to learn and understand science and technology is key to fulfilling their potential in the best interests of our society. Underlying this objective is the conviction that science and technology are the underpinnings of our modern society and that only with an understanding of science and technology can people make correct decisions in their lives, public, professional, and private. INSPIRE's objective is to bring the excitement of observing natural and man-made radio waves in the audio region to students and others. INSPIRE is a thirteen year old non-profit scientific, educational project whose goal is to stimulate students and the public to learn and understand science and technology. With the planned de-orbiting of the venerable Mir Space Station in March 2001, a phase of the Interactive NASA Space Physics Ionosphere Radio Experiments (INSPIRE) program has ended, but a new one is about to begin with IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration). The INSPIRE Program, MIR to IMAGE By William Taylor and William Pine