Small Satellites as Pathfinders for New Mission Capabilities
Small Satellites as Pathfinders for New Mission Capabilities
Session ID#: 124141
Session Description:
In recent years, small satellites have proven that high-quality science measurements can be achieved through ingenuity in miniaturized payload design and other technology enhancements. These successes are impacting how the science community develops the next generation of space missions, leveraging these advances to support long-term continuity measurements, constellations, and new mission architectures in response to the Decadal Surveys and other targeted opportunities. As a result, the success of past small satellite missions is now disrupting how future science objectives may be addressed. In this session, a panel of experts will describe how the lineage and products of their past missions are establishing a new pathway to mission capabilities spanning small-to-large and single-to-multiple-spacecraft satellite systems for high-priority science.
Co-Organized:
- GC - Global Environmental Change
- P - Planetary Sciences
- SA - SPA-Aeronomy
- SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:
0399 General or miscellaneous [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
6299 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
7599 General or miscellaneous [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7899 General or miscellaneous [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Primary Convener: William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners: Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Pamela Millar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and David M Klumpar, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
Primary Liaison: William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States
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