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TheCoquí andCoquí II (Coquí Dos andCoquí 2) campaign involved a sequence ofsounding rocket launches in order to study the dynamics of the E- and F-regionionosphere and increase scientists' understanding of layering phenomena, such as sporadic E layers. The studies were supported by the United States'National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and carried out in 1992 and 1998 respectively.[1]
NASA launched sounding rockets from thePuerto Rican coastal town ofVega Baja, about 20 miles west ofSan Juan. Among the stated goals were to study how the Earth's ionosphere reacts to naturally occurring phenomena by artificially simulating these phenomena using a high-frequency (HF) radar and study the ionospheric response with both theArecibo Observatory ionospheric radar and with instruments and chemical tracers carried aboard the sounding rockets. The campaign was named for thecoqui frog, which is a small frog in the genus Eleutherodactylus native to Puerto Rico.[2]
The launches which took place from the Tortuguero Launch Range,[3] nearTortuguero Lagoon sparked protests.[4][5][6]
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