Powers Brendan N, Feltman Connor A, Jaynes Allison N, Moore Aidan T, Ervin Tamar, LLera Kristie, Jones Olivia L, Burkholder Brandon L, Homann Jason A, Khan Arissa S, Vandercoy-Daniels David H, Kletzing Craig A, Miles David M, Bonnell John W, Halekas Jasper S, Fuselier Stephen A, Hospodarsky George B, Bounds Scott R
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA.
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA USA.
Space Sci Rev. 2025;221(5):65. doi: 10.1007/s11214-025-01192-4. Epub 2025 Jul 7.
Observing Cusp High-altitude Reconnection and Electrodynamics (OCHRE) is a student/early career researcher (ECR) focused sounding rocket that will fly as a compliment to the TRACERS satellites. OCHRE will utilize the deep institutional knowledge of the TRACERS science team to educate and mentor a team of graduate students and ECRs to serve as instrument leads, project manager, and primary investigator. Aiming for a near conjunction with, and at an apogee above, TRACERS in the northern polar cusp, OCHRE will answer some remaining questions from the TRICE-II sounding rockets using TRACERS to contextualize observations in the larger-scale polar cusp dynamics.
观测尖顶高空重联与电动力学（OCHRE）是一枚以学生/早期职业研究人员（ECR）为核心的探空火箭，它将作为TRACERS卫星的补充进行飞行。OCHRE将利用TRACERS科学团队深厚的机构知识，对一组研究生和早期职业研究人员进行教育和指导，让他们担任仪器负责人、项目经理和首席研究员。OCHRE旨在与TRACERS在北极尖顶附近实现近会合，并在其远地点上方，它将利用TRACERS在更大尺度的极尖动力学中对观测进行背景化处理，回答TRICE-II探空火箭遗留的一些问题。
