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"CONSTELLATION" MISSIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH


            This page: http://www.phy6.org/Education/Future.htm
            Central linking page: http://www.phy6.org/readfirst.htm


Introductions and Overview        Discussion of current state and
                future plans, including discussion of files described below.

"Developing a Strategy for Magnetospheric Research"
                by David P. Stern .... Eos, 77,165 & 168, 23 April 1996.

The "Profile" Mission
                Introduction to an older web site on "Profile",
                linked to the two articles listed below.

Planning the "Profile" Multiprobe Mission
                Presented at the 1997 Fall meeting of the AGU and later published
                on p.66-71 in "Science Closure and Enabling Technologies
                for Constellation Class Missions
" (V. Angelopoulos & P.V. Panetta,
                editors; v + 151 pp., Univ. Calif., Berkeley, 1998)

Science Tasks for "Profile"
                Presented at the 1997 Fall meeting of the AGU and later published
                on p.136-141 in "Science Closure and Enabling Technologies
                for Constellation Class Missions
" (V. Angelopoulos & P.V. Panetta,
                editors; v + 151 pp., Univ. Calif., Berkeley, 1998)

Systematic Identification of Preferred Orbits for
Magnetospheric Missions: 1. Single Satellites.

                by David P. Stern,         J. Astronaut. Sciences, 49
                        p.559-583, October-December 2001.

Systematic Identification of Preferred Orbits for
Magnetospheric Missions: 2. The "Profile" Constellation.

                by David P. Stern,         J. Astronaut. Sciences, 50
                        p.149-171, April-June 2002.

"Cross-Scale" implementation by the "Profile" scenario
                by David P. Stern and Douglas E. Rowland,
                Poster presentation for the "Cross-Scale" mission meeting
                at Imperial College, London, September 4-5, 2006.

Note added (3 June 2003) supplementing the celestial mechanics calculation
                of the two above articles, "Systematic Identification of Preferred
                Orbits for Magnetospheric Missions.
"

"DRACO" mission definition team report
      (NASA document NASA/TM--2001--209985, May 2001, PDF format (2.1 Mb).
Copy to your computer from this server, then open it there.

"MagCON" supplement of mission definition team report
      (NASA document 1 January 2005, PDF format (3.4 Mb).
Copy to your computer from this server, then open it there.

Presentations at "Road Map" meeting in College Park, 19 May 2008.
        Contains link to 12.1 Mb poster.
     


               

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Author and Curator:   Dr. David P. Stern
     Mail to Dr.Stern:   david("at" symbol)phy6.org .

Last updated 21 January 2006

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