MAGNETOSPHERIC MULTIPROBES: A FEASIBILITY ARGUMENT
Summary
The Feasibility Argument
1. INTRODUCTION
2. ZERO LEVEL SCIENCE GOALS
2.1 Substorm Chronology
2.2 Substorm Current, Energy and Magnetic Flux Budgets
2.3 Current Sheet Thickness and Evolution
2.4 Modeling and Variability of Magnetospheric Currents
2.5 Fate of Accelerated Particles
2.6 The Most Common State of the Plasma Sheet
2.7 Plasma Sheet Thermodynamics
3. THE ZERO LEVEL MISSION
3.1 Strawman Mission Concept: Overview
3.2 Mission Architecture
3.2.1 Orbit Characteristics
3.2.2 Operational Lifetime
3.2.3 Instruments
3.2.3.1 Magnetometer
3.2.3.2 Ion Electrostatic Analyzer
3.2.4 Data Acquisition
3.2.5 Data Storage
3.2.6 Data Transmission
3.2.7 Power
3.2.8 Mission Operations Requirements
3.2.8.1 Spacecraft operations
3.2.8.2 Ground Station Visibility
3.2.8.3 Ground Operations
3.2.9 Spacecraft Mass and Power
3.2.10 Launch Weight and Orbit Attainability
3.3 Mission Data Handling
3.3.1 Data Receipt and Validation
3.3.2 Reduction and Dissemination to Scientific Community
3.3.3 Analysis
3.4 Preliminary Cost Estimate
3.5 Additional Science at No Additional Cost: The Magnetopause, The Magnetosheath And The Low Latitude Boundary Layer
4. EXTENDED GOALS
4.1 Electrons
4.2 Heavy Ions
4.3 Energetic particles
4.4 Solar Wind Detector
4.5 Towards a magnetospheric laboratory
5. STRAWMAN MISSION DEPENDENCE ON FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES
6. TOWARDS THE REALIZATION OF A MULTIPROBE MISSION
References
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