Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufmsm42a..01m&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #SM42A-01
Physics
Plasma Physics
[2499] Ionosphere / General Or Miscellaneous, [2799] Magnetospheric Physics / General Or Miscellaneous, [7899] Space Plasma Physics / General Or Miscellaneous, [7999] Space Weather / General Or Miscellaneous
Scientific paper
Working in the cubesat regime of space missions imposes obvious limitations on the complexity and scope of experiments that can be accomplished. However, these very small satellite projects also offer substantial advantages. In comparison to the traditional large satellite missions they provide a means to fast, near immediate, implementation of scientific ideas; to narrowly focused science investigations; to extended multi-point measurements; and to try out creative new, but high-risk, experimental approaches. Relatively simple but well-chosen measurements from CubeSat missions can complement observations from ground or large spacecraft missions to observe phenomena of interest over different geographic locations, at higher or lower altitudes, an at different local times. They can also provide crucial information on the small-scale structure of phenomena or help provide a global view. The powerful utility of all of these features is verified in the rich collection of scientific ideas emerging in response to the newly established NSF CubeSat program. The assortment of scientific investigations being proposed spans all across solar, magnetospheric, ionospheric, upper-atmospheric, and space weather research. Based on examples from current projects and potential future directions for the NSF CubeSat program, the presentation will explore the prolific scientific promise of the program.
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