Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE)
September 8-18, 2009
NASA's Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE), Plans To 'Make Clouds' Tonight . . . A rocket experiment set to launch Tuesday aims to create artifi [...]
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Test Technology Symposium 1997: Weather Modification
March 19, 1997
Dr. Arnold A. Barnes Jr. from the USAF Phillips Lab gave a presentation titled “Session B: Advanced Weapon/Instrumentation Technologies.” where he dis [...]
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Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
1995-1996
US Air Force dreams of future weather warfare techniques. 2025 is a study designed to comply with a directive from the chief of staff of the Air Force [...]
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Triggering the HF Breakdown of the Atmosphere by Barium Release
March 19, 1993
RF ionization rates for mixtures of air with bariurn are computed using a Fokker-Planck code. It is shown that there is an optimum mixing ratio of bar [...]
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Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) and the Arecibo Ionospheric Heater
July 1990 - September 1993
Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) dumps chemicals in space while a ground-based microwave antenna in Arecibo, Puerto Rico heats [...]
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Department of Defense HAARP Steering Group - Joint Services Program
December 13, 1989 - February 12, 1990
HAARP HF Active Auroral Research Program - Joint Services Program Plans and Activities Summary of HAARP Steering Group Activities and Schedule Dec. 13 [...]
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International Treaties and Active Experiments in Space
September 1, 1989
Satellite explorations of the near earth environment have vastly increased our understanding of space plasmas and their interactions with systems. A l [...]
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Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket (BEAR)
July 13, 1989
On July 13, 1989 the BEAM experiment Aboard Rocket (BEAR) linear accelerator was successfully launched and operated in space. The flight demonstrated [...]
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Stanford Star Lab: New Concepts in Ionospheric Modification
April 15, 1986 - November 1987
Stanford's Star Lab plans future of space weather modification. By directing repetitive pulses of the electron beam downwards along the magnetic field [...]
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Project Waterhole, Interrupting Aurora With Water Vapor
1981-1984
Project Waterhole is a series of three sounding rocket launches supported by extensive ground based scientific instrumentation. The purpose of the pro [...]
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NASA Project Cameo Barium Cloud Over Alaska
October 30, 1978
The space agency released barium from a satellite over Alaska Sunday, creating glowing, bluish-white clouds for a weather experiment to study the move [...]
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Sounding Rockets Explosive Shells Pound Ionosphere
1970 - 1975
December 1, 1970 to April 28, 1972 - ARPA Project SECEDE Contractor: University of Alaska, Geophysical Institute. Amount of Contract: $283,849.00 Stri [...]
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Project High Altitude Research Program (HARP) Cannons Launch Chemical Payloads Into Space
June 1965
U. S. ARMY MATERIEL COMMAND BALLISTIC' RESEARCH LABORATORIES ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MARYLAND Project High Altitude Research Program (HARP) is direct [...]
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Artificial Strontium and Barium Clouds in the Upper Atmosphere
February 14, 1964 - December 3, 1964
“So far seven different experiments have been carried out with sounding rockets in the Sahara and in Sardinia.” Active experiments in the magnetospher [...]
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Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
October 10, 1963
Upper-atmospheric nuclear explosions fry satellites by creating artificial radiation belts. Discovery of "The Christofilos Effect" was made during Ope [...]
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Plasma Seeding and Magnetospheric Modification Begins!
May 1963 - Present
“Create an artificial ion cloud in interplanetary space for studying the state of the interplanetary medium .. sounding rocket experiments of May 1963 [...]
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Project Highwater
April 25, 1962 - November 16, 1962
Experimental release of water in the ionosphere resulted in ice clouds and radio disruption. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The United States plans to laun [...]
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Project Firefly - Chemical Releases in Space
July-December 1960
Project Firefly 1960, the upper atmosphere chemical release program of the Geophysics Research Directorate, in cooperation with other participting age [...]
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