A44G:
Small Satellites Have Scientific Value, but Where Do They Fit In? II


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Session ID#: 58548

Session Description:
The scientific community and government funding agencies are evaluating the capabilities, limitations, and potential of CubeSats, small satellites, and small satellite constellations for science and long-term data record gap mitigation.  Small satellites have demonstrable and in some cases unique scientific value.  Their strengths and limitations, which are rapidly evolving as new technologies are developed and demonstrated, are not generally well understood.  This session seeks to highlight the state of the art in CubeSat and small satellite science and enabling technologies, specifically as applied to Earth and space science.  We invite domestic and international contributions presenting science results obtained from small satellite missions, significant new enabling technologies, commercial platforms and efforts that can be used for scientific research, and new mission concepts that are uniquely suited to small satellites.
Primary Convener:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  David M Klumpar, Montana State University - Bozeman, Space Science and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Physics, Bozeman, United States and Pamela Millar, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Primary Liaisons:  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
Chairs:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, David M Klumpar, Montana State University - Bozeman, Space Science and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Physics, Bozeman, United States and Pamela Millar, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Charles D Norton, NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC, United States
Co-Organized with:
Atmospheric Sciences, and SPA-Magnetospheric Physics

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

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • 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]
2494 Instruments and techniques [IONOSPHERE]
2794 Instruments and techniques [MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SMALL SATELLITES FOR SPACE SCIENCE (4S) COSPAR ROADMAP (Invited) (417151)
Robyn M Millan, Dartmouth College, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, Rudolf von Steiger, Intl Space Science Inst, Bern, Switzerland and The "Small Satellites for Space Science (4S)" COSPAR Roadmap Committee
Observations of Energetic Electron Precipitation with the FIREBIRD Cubesats (Invited) (448704)
John Glen Sample, Montana State University, Bozeman, United States, David M Klumpar, Montana State University - Bozeman, Space Science and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Physics, Bozeman, United States, Harlan E Spence, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, Mykhaylo Shumko, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Arlo Johnson, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States and FIREBIRD Team
MarCO: Flight Status and Lessons Learned (402571)
Andrew Klesh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Joel Krajewski, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and The MarCO Flight Team
Recent radio occultation profile results obtained from Spire’s CubeSat GNSS-RO constellation (454531)
Vladimir Irisov1, Timothy Duly1, Vu Nguyen2, Dallas Masters3, Oleguer Nogues-Correig4, Linus Tan5, Takayuki Yuasa5 and David R Ector2, (1)Spire Global, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Spire Global, Inc., Boulder, United States, (3)Spire Global, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Spire Global UK, Ltd, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (5)Spire Global Singapore, Pte. Ltd., Singapore, Singapore
Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Technology Demonstration (TEMPEST-D) Mission: Early Results and Potential Science Capabilities (456179)
Steven C Reising1, Gaier Todd2, Shannon Thomas Brown3, Sharmila Padmanabhan4, Christian Kummerow5, V. Chandrasekar6, Cate Heneghan2, Boon Lim3, Wesley K Berg7, Richard Schulte5, Chandrasekar Radhakrishnan8 and Matthew Pallas9, (1)Colorado State University, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (8)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (9)Blue Canyon Technologies, Boulder, CO, United States
A Small Sat Constellation for Aerosol and Cloud Measurements (461442)
Jose Vanderlei Martins, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Earth and Space Institute and Department of Physics, Baltimore, United States, Roberto Armando Fernandez Borda, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Lorraine A Remer, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences, Baltimore, United States, Brent McBride, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Physics, Earth and Space Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States and Henrique M Barbosa, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo., São Paulo, Brazil
A Mission to Achieve Ultrahigh-Resolution Imaging of the Solar Corona (468013)
Douglas Rabin1, Adrian Nigel Daw1, Philip Calhoun1, Simone D'Amico2, Joseph M Davila3, Kevin Denis3, Farzad Kamalabadi4, James A Klimchuk3, Steven Kondos5, Anne-Marie Novo-Gradac6, Lloyd Purves1, Sean Semper3, Neerav Shah3, Oswald Siegmund7 and Thomas Widmyer8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (5)Alcyon Technical Services / NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Headquarters and Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)Sensor Sciences, LLC, Pleasant Hill, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Island, VA, United States
NASA's Strategic Goals for SmallSat/CubeSat Science (357740)
Charles D Norton, NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC, United States

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