Long-Term Monitoring of the Van Allen Radiation Belts: Operations, Research, and Mission Concepts


Thomas E Berger1, Allison N Jaynes2, Daniel N Baker3, Thomas Sparn4, Xinlin Li5, Geoffrey D Reeves6, Drew L. Turner7, Paul T M Loto'aniu8, Sam Califf9, Christopher K Pankratz3, James Craft4 and Kristopher William Larsen10, (1)University of Colorado, Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (7)The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)CU/CIRES-NOAA/NCEI, Boulder, United States, (9)University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (10)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States