On November 26, 2019, at 2:43 a.m. ET (8:43 a.m. local time in Norway), as part of the Grand Challenge Initiative - Cusp mission, a meteorological ICI-5 rocket was launched towards the North Pole of NASA, carrying a small short-lived satellite.
NASA illustrates this spacecraft like this:
In total, in the region of November 26, three such rockets were launched from several points near the pole: CREX-2, ICI-5, and CHI. Each of them delivered a payload 157 miles (250 kilometers) above the North Pole, after which the satellites hung there for about 15 minutes and fell to Earth.
The whole scheme of the NASA experiment is illustrated as follows:
The official goal of the mission is to study a very important anomaly in the magnetic pole, which NASA describes as the turbulence of the magnetic field, along the walls of which solar wind particles flow into the atmosphere.
The anomaly is located at an altitude of about 300 kilometers, and satellites have studied the composition of particles, the strength of the magnetic field, and so on. However, all this was carried out not for the sake of science, but in order to establish the reasons for the disturbances in the propagation of radio waves in the circumpolar regions, which leads to a problem with GPS and communications.
Promotional video:
These problems were summarized by Mark Conde, a space physicist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks:
“Every second, 1.5 million tons of stellar matter are expelled from the Sun and into space at a speed of hundreds of miles per second. This continuous stream of plasma, known as the solar wind, has rained down on the Earth for over 4 billion years. Due to the magnetic field of our planet, this flow is mainly deflected.
However, the polar regions are an exception. Most of the Earth is protected from the solar wind. But right near the poles, in the midday sector, our magnetic field becomes a funnel through which the solar wind can penetrate the atmosphere, disrupting the operation of equipment and satellites."
Further, obviously to intimidate the public, the NASA artists posted a very beautiful animation of the battle of the solar wind with a magnetic field:
And now let's move on to the main thing that NASA, like even guys, publishes openly, but the information is there between the lines and therefore few people see it:
As you can see from this diagram, there will be TWELVE meteorological rockets in total. The first two were planned for 2018, but will fly in December 2019, in the first days, thus becoming the fourth and fifth. And then the rest will fly until the end of January 2020. And so everyone has a question: why such a density of launches, from which Kim Jong-un himself would have come to ecstasy?
And if you read in general everything that is written on the NASA website about this, it turns out that this turbulence was discovered back in 2004 and did not seem to interest anyone. For 15 years, everyone was on her, how to put it mildly, do not care. And then suddenly such a wild interest.
In addition, according to NASA, the same turbulence exists at the South Pole. Why not launch a couple of rockets there too? What's in the way? This is not Saturn 5 - you can shoot from some destroyer. But no - only the North Magnetic Pole is being investigated, which, as we know, is shifting very quickly and if you study this displacement, then you need to start with it.
Based on the foregoing, we suspect that something very bad is happening with the North Magnetic Pole now and therefore NASA shoots at it not even with rockets, but with whole rocket salvos, like from MLRS, in order to monitor the situation on the air and predict the moment of the pole shift to the customer with maximum precision.
And, judging by the fact that they will shoot mainly in December, this will be some very important date in the calculations, perhaps even a critical one, so we are following the development of events.