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Laboratory of Rocket and Balloon Sounding Technology (LRST), Center for Space Science and Applied Research (CSSAR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was established on 18 Jan., 2006, based on the former research group of upper atmosphere exploration and assurance technology. LRST mainly focuses on the sounding technology research applied to sounding rocket, meteorological rocket, unmanned aerial vehicles and balloon. The research field covers integration technology, payload technology of upper atmosphere and ionosphere exploration and ground support technology. LRST also develops experiments onboard rocket, unmanned aerial vehicles and balloon and ground-based atmosphere experiments. It dedicates to promoting the development of sounding science and technology.
LRST aims at obtaining information about atmospheric composition, electric field, electron density, ion density and electron temperature in ionosphere under 200km and meteorological parameters (temperature, density, pressure, wind direction and wind velocity) under 70km, and tries to discover new physical mechanisms and disciplines.
As to the aspect of upper atmosphere exploration, LRST dedicates to the research per different requirements of temperature, air pressure, humidity, wind velocity, wind direction and atmosphere electric field at the altitude of 0～30km and 20～60km. Several upper atmosphere detecting equipments have been developed and successfully applied to space, aviation and meteorology exploration. They provided good meteorological assurance to the successful launch of Shenzhou spacecraft and many satellites. The air pressure sensors and humidity sensors developed independently with high precision are solely belonged to CSSAR. LRST has developed balloon-borne two-sphere electric field instrument, micro-rocket electric field instrument, inverted electric field instrument, electric field instrument and sonde onboard rocket.
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Laboratory of Rocket and Balloon Sounding Technology (LRST)
