Geomagnetic pulsations associated with rocket launches from the Canaveral cape cosmodrome and Couru cosmodrome

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Space and Atmospheric Physics
1Chernogor, LF, 2Shamota, MA
1V.N. Karazin National University of Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Kosm. nauka tehnol. 2008, 14 ;(6):89-98
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2008.06.089
Publication Language: Russian
Abstract: 
This paper analyses geomagnetic field variations in 1 –1000 s period range that accompanied 11 Space Shuttle system launches from the Cape Canaveral Cosmodrome and 15 Ariane-5 rocket launches from the Couru Cosmodrome in 2002–2007. The measurements were made near Kharkiv city at approximately 10000 km from the cosmodromes. The analysis revealed three groups of disturbances for Ariane 5 with time delays of 28–88, 193–238 and 300–330 min and durations of 30–70, 33–63 and 30–70 min. The 12–14 min geomagnetic micropulsation periods became predominant. For Space Shuttle system, three groups of disturbances with time delays of 13–58, 133–163 and 193–253 min and durations of 36–60, 54–90 and 63–93 min were revealed. The 6–10 min geomagnetic micropulsation periods became predominant in the first group. The 10–14 min periods became predominant in the second and third groups of disturbances. The amplitudes of these micropulsations attained a value of 3–5 nT.
Keywords: amplitudes, geomagnetic micropulsation, periods
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