Thomas J Immel¹, Scott England², Stephen B Mende³, Roderick A Heelis⁴, Jerry Edelstein⁵, Eric Korpela⁶, Christoph R Englert⁷, Astrid I Maute⁸, Jeffrey M M Forbes⁹, Brian Joseph Harding¹⁰, Yen-Jung Joanne Wu¹¹, Colin Charles Triplett¹², Martin M Sirk¹³, Andrew W Stephan¹⁴, Joseph Huba¹⁵, Geoff Crowley¹⁶, Harald U Frey¹⁷, Farzad Kamalabadi¹⁸, Michael H Stevens⁷, Jonathan J Makela¹⁹, John Harlander²⁰, Kenneth David Marr⁷, Ulas Kamaci¹⁰, Robert R Meier²¹, Gary S Bust²², Gary R Swenson²³, Oswald Siegmund²⁴ and The Ionospheric Connection Explorer Team, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Virginia, VA, United States, (3)Univ California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University Texas Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States, (5)Univ of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (7)Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (8)NCAR/HAO, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (11)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (12)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (13)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (14)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (15)US Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States, (16)Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, Boulder, CO, United States, (17)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (18)University of Illinois, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (19)Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (20)SCSU, St Cloud, MN, United States, (21)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (22)JHU Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, United States, (23)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (24)Sensor Sciences, LLC, Pleasant Hill, CA, United States

Richard Eastes, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Deepak Kumar Karan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Robert Edward Daniell Jr, Ionospheric Physics, Stoughton, MA, United States, Carlos R. Martinis, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, William E McClintock, University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Alan Geoffrey Burns, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States

John Braun¹, Irina Zakharenkova², Nicholas M Pedatella³, William Steven Schreiner¹, Iurii Cherniak⁴, JanPeter Weiss⁵, Qian Wu⁶, Teresa Vanhove¹ and Douglas Hunt¹, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, COSMIC, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)COSMIC Project Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States

Jann-Yenq G Liu, Natl Central Univ, Chung Li, Taiwan, Fu-yuan Chang, NCU National Central University of Taiwan, Jhongli, Taiwan, Charles C. H. Lin, National Cheng Kung University, Department of Earth Sciences, Tainan, Taiwan and Chi-Yen Lin, Center for Astronautical Physics and Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Chaosong Huang, Air Force Research Laboratory Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Hyosub Kil, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Larry J Paxton, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Woo Kyoung Lee, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea

Joseph Huba, Syntek Technologies, Fairfax, VA, United States, Hanli Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, Erich Becker, NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, United States and Sharon Vadas, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO, United States

Anastasia Newheart, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, Stanislav Y Sazykin, Rice University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Houston, TX, United States, Joseph Huba, US Naval Research Laboratory, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC, United States, Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, Victoria N Coffey, NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States and Bela G Fejer, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States

Nicholas M Pedatella¹, Jeffrey L Anderson², Chia-Hung Chen³, Kevin Raeder², Jing Liu⁴, Hanli Liu⁴ and Charles C. H. Lin⁵, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Cheng Kung University, Department of Earth Sciences, Tainan, Taiwan