Who will design, build and test the TMA payload??
Students at Penn State and Clemson will design, build and test the TMA payload. • Can I see a working model of the TMA payload?? Unfortunately, at this time Clemson does not have an operable TMA canister that students may inspect. However, at some time this summer or early in the fall, the physics machine shop will begin building several payloads for an upcoming rocket campaign and you may inspect it at this time. Until then, we do have photographs and schematics of past TMA payloads that you may view by contacting Dr. Larsen. • How is data taken using a TMA trail? When TMA is released into the upper atmosphere it glows brightly and, at night, can be seen for several hundred miles. Data is collected on the TMA trails by simultaneously taking photographs of the trail from at least two ground observation sites. In this way, the trail profile is recorded over time. • How is the photographic data converted into wind velocities? Because the trail was photographed simultaneously from at leas
