| 项目编号: | 1763169
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| 项目名称: | RAPID: ANDESITE Cubesat |
| 作者: | Brian Walsh
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| 承担单位: | Trustees of Boston University
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| 批准年: | 2017
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| 开始日期: | 2017-11-15
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| 结束日期: | 2018-10-31
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| 资助金额: | 124478
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Geosciences - Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
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| 英文关键词: | andesite cubesat constellation mission
; cubesat constellation
; andesite cubesats
; use
; andesite mission
; launch
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| 英文摘要: | This grant supports the completion and launch of the ANDESITE CubeSat constellation mission consisting of 9 spacecraft. These CubeSat will make spatially-resolved measurements of electric currents in the ionosphere, which are a critical pathway of energy flow from the magnetosphere into the ionosphere. The research effort will demonstrate that critical scientific measurements can made using CubeSat constellations for use in space weather monitoring. The grant will support a junior scientist in the community and provide education and training for graduate and undergraduate students.
The ANDESITE CubeSats will fly through the auroral zones with small inter-spacecraft separations (<10km) to study the small-scale spatial structure of Magnetosphere- Ionosphere coupling. The ANDESITE mission is manifested on the Rocket Labs Electron rocket for a launch into a near polar orbit. Once in space, the 6U bus will deploy 8 pico-satellites to fly in a constellation communicating over a mesh network. Each element in the constellation will make a 3-axis magnetic field measurement which will be used to identify the local current density. The mission serves as a pathfinder to demonstrate the use of small spacecraft constellations with small separations for use in space weather monitoring. This research will test, launch, and operate the spacecraft constellation on orbit, and perform data analysis. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/88657
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
科学计划与规划
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Brian Walsh. RAPID: ANDESITE Cubesat. 2017-01-01.
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