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The CuSPED Mission: CubeSat for GNSS Sounding of the Ionosphere-Plasmasphere Electron Density
The CuSPED Mission: CubeSat for GNSS Sounding of the Ionosphere-Plasmasphere Electron Density
| dc.contributor.author | Gross, Jason N. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kessee, Amy M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Christian, John A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gu, Yu | |
| dc.contributor.author | Scime, Earl | |
| dc.contributor.author | Komjathy, Attila | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lightsey, E. Glenn | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pollock, Craig J. | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. Space Systems Design Lab | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-24T15:25:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-24T15:25:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-01 | |
| dc.description | Presented at the 2016 AIAA Science Technology Forum Exposition in San Diego, CA. | |
| dc.description.abstract | The CubeSat for GNSS Sounding of Ionosphere-Plasmasphere Electron Density (CuSPED) is a 3U CubeSat mission concept that has been developed in response to the NASA Heliophysics program's decadal science goal of the determining of the dynamics and coupling of the Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere, and atmosphere and their response to solar and terrestrial inputs. The mission was formulated through a collaboration between West Virginia University, Georgia Tech, NASA GSFC and NASA JPL, and features a 3U CubeSat that hosts both a miniaturized space capable Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver for topside atmospheric sounding, along with a Thermal Electron Capped Hemi- spherical Spectrometer (TECHS) for the purpose of in situ electron precipitation measurements. These two complimentary measurement techniques will provide data for the purpose of constraining ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling models and will also enable studies of the local plasma environment and spacecraft charging; a phenomenon which is known to lead to significant errors in the measurement of low-energy, charged species from instruments aboard spacecraft traversing the ionosphere. The CUSPED mission has been proposed, and this paper provides an overview of the concept including its science motivation and implementation. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1853/74069 | |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
| dc.publisher.original | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | SSDL ; AIAA 2016-1463 | |
| dc.rights | Unless otherwise noted, all materials are protected under U.S. Copyright Law and all rights are reserved | |
| dc.rights.metadata | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en | |
| dc.title | The CuSPED Mission: CubeSat for GNSS Sounding of the Ionosphere-Plasmasphere Electron Density | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Paper | |
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| local.contributor.author | Lightsey, E. Glenn | |
| local.contributor.author | Christian, John A. | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Space Systems Design Laboratory (SSDL) | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering | |
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