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SPIDER

SPIDER sounding rocket was launched from Esrange on February 2, 2016.

The scientific objective of the SPIDER project was a study of the Farley-Buneman instability in the auroral electrojet. The rocket carried ten Free Falling Units (FFUs) ejected from a single rocket. Each FFU was equiped with an electric field instrument, Langmuir probes and a fluxgate magnetometer. The rocket was launched from Esrange on February 2, 2016, at 21:09 UT into active aurora.

SPIDER launch
Launch of SPIDER sounding rocket from Esrange/M.Lindh@SSC