Auroral Spatial Structures Probe (ASSP)

The Auroral Spatial Structures Probe (ASSP) is a NASA sounding rocket mission to be launched in the late January 2015 time frame that will be used to study both the spatial and temporal small scale variation of the electric and magnetic fields during active aurora and just before the onset of an auroral sub-storm. This will be accomplished through the use of a constellation of small payloads that separate relative to each other throughout a sounding rocket flight.