Cassini spacecraft
Cusp observation at Saturn's high latitude magnetosphere by the Cassini spacecraft
... reconnection. Cassini crossed the northern cusp around noon local time along a poleward ...The spacecraft observed ion energy-latitude dispersions—a characteristic signature of the terrestrial ...
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Cassini nightside observations of the oscillatory motion of Saturn's northern auroral oval
... the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn have provided the fi rst opportunity to sample the coupled solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere system through the direct measurement of the associated high-latitude fi ...
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Polar confinement of Saturn's magnetosphere revealed by in situ Cassini observations
... Figure 1. In situ data taken by the Cassini spacecraft over 48 h starting at midnight on day 123 of 2007 (3 May). (top) The components of the magnetic field and its magnitude with a 1 min time resolution ...
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Cassini multi instrument assessment of Saturn's polar cap boundary
... Italiana Cassini spacecraft has been gathering data for ~10 years, including signi fi cant intervals when the spacecraft trajectory is inclined to the equator, allowing high-latitude magnetosphere ...
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Cassini observations of Saturn’s southern polar cusp
... ionosphere through the polar magnetosphere, see for example Smith and Lockwood (1996) and Cargill et al. (2005) and references therein for recent reviews. In-situ observations of the polar magnetospheres of the outer ...
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It’s complicated: a big data approach to exploring planetesimal evolution in the presence of Jovian planets
... or Cassini spacecraft — both of which used multiple gravity assists with one speci fi c planet to reach the outer solar system — our simulations reveal that planetesimals can evolve similarly, with multiple ...
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Plasma flow patterns in and around magnetosheath jets
... multiple spacecraft (at least spacecraft pairs) that feature separations on the order of typical jet cross-sectional scales, so that the jet and the plasma outside can be monitored ...(THEMIS) ...
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Reflection of the strahl within the foot of the Earth's bow shock
... Because of telemetry restrictions, PEACE generally re- turns only a subset of the total data collected, even in burst mode. Exactly what is returned depends on the instrument mode, which can be separately commanded for ...
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The Design and Implementation of Workflow Engine for Spacecraft Automatic Testing
... Spacecraft software testing is a matter of growing importance. However, because the testing efficiency is very low due to the complex testing flow, it becomes a tedious task. Our approach exploits workflow ...
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Investigating Miniaturized Electrodynamic Tethers for Picosatellites and Femtosatellites
... The simulations were initiated on 1 January 2000, which was during a solar maximum, so the heightened neutral-to-electron- density ratio presented a worst-case scenario for EDT thrusting (Sec. III.C). The simulations ...
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Fractal patterns in fractionated spacecraft
... between spacecraft are designed to be with reference to the mission ...When spacecraft carry radio antenna designed to work as a distributed array, design distance depends on the wavelength ...several ...
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Spacecraft reflectors thermomechanical analysis
... Antennas belong to the category of external spacecraft appendages exposed to thermal, radiation and mechanical environments [2]. So besides the surface imperfections due to assembly operations, manufacture ...
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Non-Keplerian orbits using low thrust, high ISP propulsion systems
... the spacecraft would need to hover at above Mars in order to maintain the communications relay would change, and thus the amount of thrust required would also change ...
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Reconnection acceleration in Saturn's dayside magnetodisc:a multicase study with Cassini
... 2018 directly confirmed the existence of magnetic reconnection in Saturn’s dayside magnetodisc i.e., well inside the magnetopause by examining the reconnection-associated Hall current sy[r] ...
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Impact Craters on Titan: Finalizing Titan's Crater Population
... This work updated Titan’s crater population using new data from Cassini. In this work, we updated SARTopo measurements using new SARTopo data. We did not perform measurements of stereo data because previous work ...
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Evidence-based preliminary design of spacecraft
... This paper presents a computational tool that has been specifically developed for evidence-based robust design problems. The paper starts with a brief overview of evidence theory and its use in system design. Then a tool ...
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Electrostatic charging of spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit
... Meteosat spacecraft; Meteosat FI, launched in November 1977; Meteosat F2, launched in July 1981, and Meteosat P2, launched in May ...overall spacecraft characteristics are given in Table ...the ...
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Thermo-photovoltaic spacecraft electricity generation
... In order to find an optimum energy conversion system, the following analysis will investigate heat-to-electricity con- version efficiency in terms of photovoltaic temperature, the photov[r] ...
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Cassini in situ observations of long duration magnetic reconnection in Saturn’s magnetotail
... Figure S2: Cassini radio and plasma wave observations and ENLIL solar wind simulation.. results showing the inferred upstream solar wind conditions during the event: a electric.[r] ...
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Behavioral Changes of Jupiter’s Little and Great Red Spot: a Survey
... Figure 8 shows a comparison between the latitude distribution of spots and the zonal wind profile. The left panel considers the number of all spots per degree of latitude with a scaling factor 4 (light line) along with ...
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