Last year NASA successfully launched the Van Allen Probes (two spacecraft)
and this pair has been creating a wealth of data relevant to our
understanding of space weather. On board are several instrument suites
and today I attach a 55-page paper describing one of them:
C.A. Kletzing, W.S.Kurth, T.Averkamp, S.R.Bounds, D.Crawford, J.S.Dolan, R.Dvorsky, G.B.Hospodarsky, J.Howard, R.A.Johnson, D.L.Kirchner, B.Mokrzycki, J.R.Phillips, C.W.Piker, S.L.Remington The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) on RBSP, Space Science Reviews, June 2013
The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) investigation on the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (now named the Van Allen Probes) mission provides key wave and very low frequency magnetic field measurements to understand radiation belt acceleration, loss, and transport. The key science objectives and the contribution that EMFISIS makes to providing measurements as well as theory and modeling are described ...
Received: 30 August 2012 / Accepted: 9 May 2013
This article is published with at Springerlink.com
Stay tuned for more material on the Van Allen Probes, in the coming months.
(1) C.A. Kletzing, W.S.Kurth, T.Averkamp, S.R.Bounds, D.Crawford, J.S.Dolan, R.Dvorsky, G.B.Hospodarsky, J.Howard, R.A.Johnson, D.L.Kirchner, B.Mokrzycki, J.R.Phillips, C.W.Piker, S.L.Remington The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) on RBSP, Space Science Reviews, June 2013
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Webmaster Notes: After the successful deployment of both RBSP space probes in Earth orbit, NASA officially changed the name of them to "Van Allen Probes".
Webmaster Notes: Read more about the mission RBSP From Wikipedia, The Van Allen Probes Web Site, conference here, and in Newsletters: Vol.4 No.77, Vol.4 No.78 and Vol.4 No.87,