SA020
Science from an ITM CubeSat constellation

Session ID#: 80049

Session Description:
Within the next 12 months, five CubeSat missions investigating the ITM system will be deployed from the ISS with mid-latitude LEO orbits. The links to the science investigation description for LAICE, LLITED, petitSat, SORTIE, and SPORT missions are provided below. Together, these missions, combined with larger missions (e.g. ICON, GOLD, COSMIC-2) and ground networks, create a new ITM constellation whose data can advance our understanding of the dynamic nature and dominant mechanisms that control the region that defines the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space. This session invites papers on the science that will use the data from this ITM constellation to investigate the drivers of the variability of this region and how they are coupled.

LAICE: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/l/laice

LLITED: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=3697&context=smallsat

petitSat: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-team-pursues-blobs-and-bubbles-with-new-petitsat-mission

SORTIE: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/s/sortie

SPORT: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3695&context=smallsat

Index Terms:

7837 Neutral particles [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7868 Wave/wave interactions [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7894 Instruments and techniques [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7944 Ionospheric effects on radio waves [SPACE WEATHER]

Primary Convener:  James F Spann, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Rebecca L Bishop, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Jeffrey Klenzing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Charles Swenson, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
Primary Liaison:  James F Spann, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
 
The LAICE Cubesat Mission – Capabilities and Synergies (488710)
Gregory Duane Earle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Gary R Swenson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
 
The DAILI (Daily Atmosphere and Ionosphere Limb Imager) CubeSat Mission (495710)
James H Hecht, Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Lynette J Gelinas, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States, David A Hinkley, Aerospace Corporation El Segundo, El Segundo, CA, United States, Jeng-Hwa Yee, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States, Andrew B Christensen, Dixie State University, St George, UT, United States, Stanley C Solomon, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States and Geoffrey Crowley, ASTRA, Boulder, CO, United States
 
SPORT Mission: Parameters of Interest for a Scintillation Forecasting Approach (499437)
Luis Eduardo Vergueiro Loures da Costa1, Jonas Sousasantos2, Mangalathayil Ali Abdu3, Marco Antônio Ridenti1 and Scientific and Technical Team of SPORT at ITA, (1)ITA Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)ITA Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Electronic Engineering and Computation, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (3)Inst Nat Pesquisas Espac CP515, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil
 
The NANOSATC-BR1 and NANOSATC-BR2: scientific payloads and data (502702)
Jose V Bageston1, Nelson J. Schuch1, Otavio Durão2, Polinaya Muralikrishana2, Odim Mendes Jr3, Marlos Rockenbach2, Siomel Savio4,5, Sinval Domingos6, Fatima Mattiello-Francisco2, Joao B Martins7, Andrei P Legg7, Andre L da Silva7, Eduardo E Bürger7, Rodrigo P Marques8 and Juliano Moro5,8, (1)Southern Regional Space Research Center (CRCRS/COCRE/INPE-MCTIC), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil, (2)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (3)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil, (4)National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Aeronomy (DIDAE), Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil, (5)State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, NSSC/CAS, Beijing, China, (6)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Aeronomy, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (7)UFSM Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil, (8)Southern Regional Space Research Center (CRCRS/COCRE/INPE-MCTIC), Santa Maria, Brazil
 
ISS FPMU Observations of Ionospheric Plasma Variability (505681)
Victoria N Coffey1, Stanislav Y Sazykin2, Joseph Minow1, Anastasia Newheart3, Michael O Chandler4 and Emily Moon Willis1, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, (4)NASA-MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
petitSat - A 6U CubeSat to examine the link between MSTIDS and ionospheric plasma density enhancements (517105)
Jeffrey Klenzing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Sci. Div., Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ryan L Davidson, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Gregory Duane Earle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Alexa Jean Halford, Aerospace Corporation Chantilly, Chantilly, VA, United States, Sarah Jones, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Carlos R. Martinis, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, Nikolaos Paschalidis, NASA/GSFC-Heliophysics Sci, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Robert F Pfaff Jr, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jonathon Smith, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States and Kate Zawdie, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
 
First results from the ELFIN mission. (518442)
Vassilis Angelopoulos1, Ethan Tsai2, Colin Wilkins3, Ryan Caron2, Andrei Runov2, Xiaojia Zhang4 and The ELFIN Team, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)UCLA, Los Angeles, United States
 
Leveraging CubeSat constellations and the GOLD mission for ITM science (519047)
Katelynn Greer1, Richard Eastes2, Alan Geoffrey Burns3 and William E McClintock2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CA, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States
 
The Low-Latitude Ionosphere/Thermosphere Enhancements in Density (LLITED) Mission (545568)
Rebecca L Bishop, Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Aroh Barjatya, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Physical Sciences Department, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, James H. Clemmons, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States and Richard L Walterscheid, Aerospace Corp, M2-260, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
CIRCE – A CubeSat Mission for Ionosphere Thermosphere Investigation (552930)
Bruce Fritz1, Andrew C Nicholas2, Gemma Attrill3, Kenneth Dymond4, Scott Alan Budzien5, Andrew W Stephan5, Graham Routledge3, Junayd A Miah3, Cathryn N Mitchell6, Robert Watson6, Dhiren O Kataria7, James Williams8, Peter W Walker9, Kenneth D Wolfram10, Theodore T Finne11, Charles M Brown12 and Peter J Marquis13, (1)NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (3)Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down, Salisbury, United Kingdom, (4)U.S. Naval Reseach Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (5)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (6)University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, (7)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, United Kingdom, (8)Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Guildford, United Kingdom, (9)Computational Physics, Alexandria, VA, United States, (10)Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States, (11)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (12)US Naval Research Laboratory, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (13)NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA, United States
 
Benefiting from Constellation Data using pysat (Invited) (585610)
Russell Stoneback, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, Angeline G Burrell, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States and Jeffrey Klenzing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Exploring Earth’s High Latitude Aurora in Radio: The AERO and VISTA Cubesat Missions (587969)
Philip John Erickson1, Frank David Lind1, Mary Knapp2, Michael H. Hecht2, Geoffrey B Crew, Ryan Volz1, James W Labelle4, Frank Robey5, Kerri Cahoy6, Benjamin K Malphrus7, Juha Vierinen8 and Allan Thomas Weatherwax9, (1)MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Hanover, NH, United States, (4)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States, (5)Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Morehead State University, Morehead, United States, (7)Univrsity of Tromsø, Tromso, Norway, (8)Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, United States
 
In-Situ Ionospheric measurements from INSPIRESat-1 microsatellite (592939)
Amal Chandran, Nanyang Technological University, Satellite Research Centre, Singapore, Singapore, Tzu-Wei Fang, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, Loren C Chang, National Central University, Institute of Space Science, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, Chi-Kuang Chao, Center for Astronautical Physics and Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan and Kashyapa Naren Athreyas, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
 
The SPORT Mission and an Ad-Hoc Constellation in the Mid and Low-Latitude Ionosphere (608877)
Charles Swenson1, James F Spann2, Otavio Durão3, Luis Loures4, Roderick A Heelis5, Rebecca L Bishop6, Guan Le7, Todd M Bonalsky7, Marco Antônio Ridenti4, Linda Habash Krause8 and Joaquim E R Costa3, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (3)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (4)ITA Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (5)University Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, (6)The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
COSMIC-2: An International Collaboration to Advance Terrestrial and Space Weather Remote Sensing (618961)
Paul R Straus, Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and COSMIC-2 Space Weather Cal/Val Team
 
Initial Survey of Energetic Particle Flux Distributions Measured by UCLA’s ELFIN CubeSats (622176)
Colin Wilkins1, Vassilis Angelopoulos1, Ryan Caron1, Andrei Runov1, Jiang Liu1, Ethan Tsai1, Xiaojia Zhang1, Wen Li2 and The ELFIN Team, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
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