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Technology Requirements

  • High-resolution nadir imaging
  • High-sensitivity miniaturized optics
  • Low-cost, high-performance GSE

Societal Benefits

  • Improved understanding of processes
    related to satellite drag/re-entry,
    communications, chemical transport
Science Objectives
  • Wave/wave and wave/mean-flow interactions
  • Global circulation
  • Mixing and turbulence
  • Magnetic storm response
  • Global electrodynamics

    Mission Description

    • 4 sun-synchronous satellites, 600 km circular
    • Limited remote sensing and in-situ observations
    • Satellite-to-GPS satellite TEC measurements

    Measurement Strategy

    • Remote sensing of winds, 70-300 km
    • Wind measurements on both sides of satellite, separated by 3 hours local time
    • In-situ measurements of E-fields
    • Imaging of small-scale structure and waves