| タイトル | Science of Opportunity: Heliophysics on the FASTSAT Mission and STP-S26 |
| 著者（英） | Ogilvie, Keith; Hill, Joanne K.; Moore, Tom; Jones, Noble; Smith, Billy; Gill, Nathaniel; Collier, Michael R.; Sigwarth, John B.; Benson, Robert; Cooper, John; Feng, Steven; Casas, Joseph; Chornay, Dennis; Kleyner, Igor; Hancock, Holly; Boudreaux, Mark; Keller, John W.; Klenzing, Jeffrey; Goodloe, Colby; Hunsaker, Floyd; Rowland, Douglas E.; Myre, David; Jones, Sarah L.; Han, Lawrence; Choi, Michael |
| 著者所属（英） | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| 発行日 | 2011-03-05 |
| 言語 | eng |
| 内容記述 | The FASTSAT spacecraft, which was launched on November 19, 2010 on the DoD STP-S26 mission, carries three instruments developed in joint collaboration by NASA GSFC and the US Naval Academy: PISA, TTl, and MINI_ME.I,1 As part of a rapid-development, low-cost instrument design and fabrication program, these instruments were a perfect match for FASTSAT, which was designed and built in less than one year. These instruments, while independently developed, provide a collaborative view of important processes in the upper atmosphere relating to solar and energetic particle input, atmospheric response, and ion outflow. PISA measures in-situ irregularities in electron number density, TIl provides limb measurements of the atomic oxygen temperature profile with altitude, and MINI-ME provides a unique look at ion populations by a remote sen sing technique involving neutral atom imaging. Together with other instruments and payloads on STP-S26 such as the NSF RAX mission, FalconSat-5, and NanoSail-D (launched as a tertiary payload from FASTSAT), these instruments provide a valuable "constellation of opportunity" for following the now of energy and charged and neutral particles through the upper atmosphere. Together, and for a small fraction of the price of a major mission, these spacecraft will measure the energetic electrons impacting the upper atmosphere, the ions leaving it, and the large-scale plasma and neutral response to these energy inputs. The result will be a new model for maximizing scientific return from multiple small, distributed payloads as secondary payloads on a larger launch vehicle. |
| NASA分類 | Spacecraft Instrumentation and Astrionics |
| レポートNO | GSFC.JA.01239.2012 |
| 権利 | Copyright |
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