01/13/2023
On Tuesday, December 27, 2022, the High-frequency Active Auroral
Research Program (HAARP) conducted its latest ionospheric experiment of bouncing radio signals off an asteroid passing near Earth's orbit (see
the ARRL News story from December 23, 2022).
A frosty landscape surrounds antennas at the High-frequency Active
Auroral Research Program site in Gakona, Alaska, on December 20, 2022.
[JR Ancheta, UAF/GI, photo]
Amateur radio operators and radio astronomy enthusiasts were invited to
monitor the test and send their results to HAARP for analysis. While
the results of the experiment will take several weeks, Jessica
Matthews, HAARP Program Manager, said the help was greatly appreciated.
"So far we have received over 300 reception reports from the amateur
radio and radio astronomy communities from six continents who confirmed
the HAARP transmission."
HAARP officials say the results of the experiment could aid efforts to
defend Earth from larger asteroids that could cause significant damage.
"We will be analyzing the data over the next few weeks and hope to
publish the results in the coming months," said Mark Haynes, lead
investigator on the project and a radar systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. "This experiment was the first
time an asteroid observation was attempted at such low frequencies," he
said. "This shows the value of HAARP as a potential future research
tool for the study of near-Earth objects."
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) operates HAARP under an
agreement with the Air Force, which developed and owned HAARP but
transferred the research instruments to UAF in August 2015.
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/haarp-thanks-amateur-radio-operators-for-help-with-latest-experiment
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