TY - JOUR
T1 - Atmospheric drag, occultation 'N' ionospheric scintillation (ADONIS) mission proposal
T2 - Alpbach Summer School 2013 team orange
AU - Hettrich, Sebastian
AU - Kempf, Yann
AU - Perakis, Nikolaos
AU - Górski, Jędrzej
AU - Edl, Martina
AU - Urbář, Jaroslav
AU - Dósa, Melinda
AU - Gini, Francesco
AU - Roberts, Owen W.
AU - Schindler, Stefan
AU - Schemmer, Maximilian
AU - Steenari, David
AU - Joldzić, Nina
AU - Glesnes Ødegaard, Linn Kristine
AU - Sarria, David
AU - Volwerk, Martin
AU - Praks, Jaan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 S. Hettrich et al., Published by EDP Sciences.
PY - 2015/2/17
Y1 - 2015/2/17
N2 - The Atmospheric Drag, Occultation 'N' Ionospheric Scintillation mission (ADONIS) studies the dynamics of the terrestrial thermosphere and ionosphere in dependency of solar events over a full solar cycle in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The objectives are to investigate satellite drag with in-situ measurements and the ionospheric electron density profiles with radio occultation and scintillation measurements. A constellation of two satellites provides the possibility to gain near real-time data (NRT) about ionospheric conditions over the Arctic region where current coverage is insufficient. The mission shall also provide global high-resolution data to improve assimilative ionospheric models. The low-cost constellation can be launched using a single Vega rocket and most of the instruments are already space-proven allowing for rapid development and good reliability. From July 16 to 25, 2013, the Alpbach Summer School 2013 was organised by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the European Space Agency (ESA), the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) and the association of Austrian space industries Austrospace in Alpbach, Austria. During the workshop, four teams of 15 students each independently developed four different space mission proposals on the topic of "Space Weather: Science, Missions and Systems", supported by a team of tutors. The present work is based on the mission proposal that resulted from one of these teams' efforts.
AB - The Atmospheric Drag, Occultation 'N' Ionospheric Scintillation mission (ADONIS) studies the dynamics of the terrestrial thermosphere and ionosphere in dependency of solar events over a full solar cycle in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The objectives are to investigate satellite drag with in-situ measurements and the ionospheric electron density profiles with radio occultation and scintillation measurements. A constellation of two satellites provides the possibility to gain near real-time data (NRT) about ionospheric conditions over the Arctic region where current coverage is insufficient. The mission shall also provide global high-resolution data to improve assimilative ionospheric models. The low-cost constellation can be launched using a single Vega rocket and most of the instruments are already space-proven allowing for rapid development and good reliability. From July 16 to 25, 2013, the Alpbach Summer School 2013 was organised by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the European Space Agency (ESA), the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) and the association of Austrian space industries Austrospace in Alpbach, Austria. During the workshop, four teams of 15 students each independently developed four different space mission proposals on the topic of "Space Weather: Science, Missions and Systems", supported by a team of tutors. The present work is based on the mission proposal that resulted from one of these teams' efforts.
KW - Drag
KW - Ionosphere (general)
KW - Missions
KW - Space weather
KW - Thermosphere
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U2 - 10.1051/swsc/2015004
DO - 10.1051/swsc/2015004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84923182643
SN - 2115-7251
VL - 5
JO - Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate
JF - Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate
M1 - A2
ER -