The Magnetosphere Imager Mission Concept Definition Study
The Magnetosphere Imager Mission Concept Definition Study

Author: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-07-23

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781723445729

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For three decades, magnetospheric field and plasma measurements have been made by diverse instruments flown on spacecraft in many different orbits, widely separated in space and time, and under various solar and magnetospheric conditions. Scientists have used this information to piece together an intricate, yet incomplete view of the magnetosphere. A simultaneous global view, using various light wavelengths and energetic neutral atoms, could reveal exciting new data and help explain complex magnetospheric processes, thus providing us with a clear picture of this region of space. The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is responsible for defining the Magnetosphere Imager mission which will study this region of space. A core instrument complement of three imagers (with the potential addition of one or more mission enhancing instrument) will fly in an elliptical polar Earth orbit with an apogee of 44,600 kilometers and a perigee of 4,800 km. This report will address the mission objectives, spacecraft design concepts, and the results of the MSFC concept definition study. Johnson, L. and Herrmann, M. and Alexander, Reggie and Beabout, Brent and Blevins, Harold and Bridge, Scott and Burruss, Glenda and Buzbee, Tom and Carrington, Connie and Chandler, Holly and Chu, Phillip and Chubb, Steve and Cushman, Paul and DeSanctis, Carmine and Edge, Ted and Freestone, Todd and French, Ray and Gallagher, Dennis and Hajos, Greg and Herr, Joel Marshall Space Flight Center MISSION PLANNING; SPACECRAFT DESIGN; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; IMAGERY; SOLAR ACTIVITY EFFECTS; MAGNETOSPHERES; AEROSPACE ENVIRONMENTS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; EARTH ORBITS; ELLIPTICAL ORBITS; POLAR ORBITS; ATTITUDE CONTROL; SPACECRAFT POWER SUPPLIES; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION; SPACECRAFT COMMUNICATION; DATA MANAGEMENT; LAUNCH VEHICLES; SPACECRAFT ENVIRONMENTS...

Solar and Space Physics
Solar and Space Physics

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13: 0309313953

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In 2010, NASA and the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council to assemble a committee of experts to develop an integrated national strategy that would guide agency investments in solar and space physics for the years 2013-2022. That strategy, the result of nearly 2 years of effort by the survey committee, which worked with more than 100 scientists and engineers on eight supporting study panels, is presented in the 2013 publication, Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society. This booklet, designed to be accessible to a broader audience of policymakers and the interested public, summarizes the content of that report.

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports
Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13:

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Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.

Magnetospheric Imaging — The Image Prime Mission
Magnetospheric Imaging — The Image Prime Mission

Author: James L. Burch

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9401000271

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The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) is a NASA Explorer mission that is the first space mission dedicated to imaging of the Earth's magnetosphere. IMAGE was launched from Vandenberg AFB into an elliptical polar orbit by a Delta II launch vehicle on March 25, 2000. The two-year prime sci entific mission of IMAGE began on May 25, 2000 after instrument commissioning was successfully completed. IMAGE has now been approved for operation until October 1,2005, and an additional two-year extension is now being considered by NASA. The papers in this volume represent many of the scientific results obtained dur ing the IMAGE prime mission and include some of the early correlative research with ground-based measurements, measurements from other spacecraft such as Cluster II, and relevant theory and modeling programs. All of the reported work is related to the overall IMAGE science objective: How does the magnetosphere respond globally to the changing conditions in the solar wind? IMAGE addresses this question with multi-spectral imaging of most of the important plasma pop ulations of the inner magnetosphere, combined with radio sounding of gradients of total plasma content. The new experimental techniques fall into the following areas: neutral atom imaging (NAI) over an energy range from 10 eV to 500 keY for detection of ionospheric outflow, the plasma sheet, and the ring current; far ultraviolet (FUV) imaging at 121-190 nm for detection of precipitating protons and the global aurora; extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imaging at 30.