@InProceedings{SpannKSHBLADLNSCNMCW:2017:MuScMi,
               author = "Spann, James F. and Krause, Linda Habash and Swenson, Charles and 
                         Heelis, Roderick A. and Bishop, Rebecca L. and Le, Guan and Abdu, 
                         Mangalathayil Ali and Dur{\~a}o, Ot{\'a}vio Santos Cupertino and 
                         Loures, Luis and De Nardin, Clezio Marcos and Shibuya, Lidia and 
                         Casas, Joseph and Nash-STevenson, Sheila and Muralikrishana, 
                         Polinaya and Costa, Joaquim Eduardo Rezende and Wrasse, Cristiano 
                         Max and Fry and Craig and D.",
          affiliation = "{NASA Marshall Space Flight Center} and {NASA Marshall Space 
                         Flight Center} and {Utah State University} and {University of 
                         Texas at Dallas} and {Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles} and {NASA 
                         Goddard Space Flight Center} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas 
                         Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais 
                         (INPE)} and {Instituto Tecnol{\'o}gico de Aeron{\'a}utica (ITA)} 
                         and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Instituto Tecnol{\'o}gico de Aeron{\'a}utica (ITA)} and {NASA 
                         Marshall Space Flight Center} and {NASA Marshall Space Flight 
                         Center} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {NASA Marshall Space 
                         Flght Ctr}",
                title = "The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT): a 
                         multinational science mission using a CubeSat",
            booktitle = "Abstracts...",
                 year = "2017",
         organization = "AGU Fall Meeting",
             abstract = "The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) is 
                         a 6U CubeSat pathfinder mission to address the very compelling but 
                         difficult problem of understanding the preconditions leading to 
                         equatorial plasma bubbles. The scientific literature describes the 
                         preconditions in both the plasma drifts and the density profiles 
                         related to bubble formations that occur several hours later in the 
                         evening. Most of the scientific discovery has resulted from 
                         observations at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory from Peru, a 
                         single site, within a single longitude sector. SPORT will provide 
                         a systematic study of the state of the pre-bubble conditions at 
                         all longitudes sectors to allow us to understand the differences 
                         between geography and magnetic geometry. This talk will present an 
                         overview of the mission and the anticipated data products. 
                         Products include global maps of scintillation occurrence as a 
                         function of local time, and magnetic conjugacy occurrence 
                         observations. SPORT is a multinational partnership between NASA, 
                         the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), and 
                         the Technical Aeronautics Institute under the Brazilian Air Force 
                         Command Department (DCTA/ITA). It has been encouraged by U.S. 
                         Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) to foster increased cooperation and 
                         ties between academics, civilian space programs and the 
                         militaries. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is coordinating this 
                         investigation by overseeing the launch to orbit and the flight 
                         instruments, which are being built by the Aerospace Corporation, 
                         University of Texas Dallas, Utah State University, and NASA 
                         Goddard Space Flight Center. The Brazilian partners are 
                         contributing the spacecraft, observatory integration and test, 
                         ground observation networks, and mission operations and data 
                         management. The science data will be distributed from and archived 
                         at the INPE/EMBRACE regional space-weather forecasting center in 
                         Brazil, and mirrored at the NASA GSFC Space Physics Data Facility 
                         (SPDF).",
  conference-location = "New Orleans",
      conference-year = "11-15 Dec.",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "spann_scintillation.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "27 abr. 2024"
}