A34E:
Science Observations Enabled by New Advances in Small-Satellite Capability and Technology

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Session ID#: 33385

Session Description:
CubeSats, small satellites, and SmallSat constellations are now producing results of scientific significance in the Earth and space sciences. New opportunities are also being explored by scientists to take advantage of hosting payloads on future large-scale commercial space platforms and by exploring the potential utility of data collected by industry-based small spacecraft systems. Recent developments in information systems and miniaturized instrument technologies are also motivating the science community to think in new ways regarding how decadal-class science could be performed based on alternative observation techniques. We invite contributions presenting science results obtained from small satellite missions, new science mission concepts that utilize small satellites, commercial platforms that could host scientific instruments for large-scale constellation observations, and current as well as planned information systems and instrument technology capabilities that will be validated on small satellites with the goal of providing new science measurement capabilities.
Primary Convener:  Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Pamela Millar, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States and David M Klumpar, Montana State University - Bozeman, Space Science and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Physics, Bozeman, United States
Chairs:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and David M Klumpar, Montana State University - Bozeman, Space Science and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Physics, Bozeman, United States
OSPA Liaison:  David M Klumpar, Montana State University - Bozeman, Space Science and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Physics, Bozeman, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
7599 General or miscellaneous [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7999 General or miscellaneous [SPACE WEATHER]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

What the Heliophysics System Observatory is teaching us about future constellations (Invited) (286700)
Vassilis Angelopoulos, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Fluxgate Magnetometry on the Experimental Albertan Satellite #1 (Ex-Alta-1) CubeSat Mission: Steps Toward a Magnetospheric Constellation Mission (235937)
Ian Robert Mann1, David Miles2, Charles Nokes3, Collin Cupido3, Duncan Elliott3, Miroslaw Ciurzynski3, David Barona1, B Barry Narod4, John Bennest5, Ivan Pakhotin3, Andy Kale1, Brendan Bruner3, Taryn Haluza-DeLay3, Colin Forsyth6, Jonathan Rae7, Carlos Lange3, Dan Sameoto3 and David K Milling1, (1)University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (4)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (5)Bennest Enterprises, Summerland, BC, Canada, (6)UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, United Kingdom, (7)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom
Observations of Electron Microbursts – In-track Separations ~ 1 km (285999)
J Bernard Blake, Aerospace Corporation Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, United States
ANDESITE: Measuring Small Scale Aurora with a CubeSat Swarm (301371)
Dr. Jonathan Brent Parham, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Brian Walsh, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States and Joshua L Semeter, Boston Univ, Boston, United States
Breakthrough Science Enabled by Smallsat Optical Communication (Invited) (263690)
Varoujan Gorjian, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Keck Institute for Space Studies Optical Communication on SmallSats Team

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