The Rocket Investigation of Current Closure in the Ionosphere (RICCI) mission: A novel application of CubeSats from a sounding rocket platform

Brian J Anderson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Ian J Cohen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, United States, Marc Lessard, University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, John W Bonnell, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Scott R Bounds, University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, United States, Robert L Lysak, University of Minnesota, School of Physics and Astronomy, Minneapolis, United States and Robert E Erlandson, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States