@InProceedings{SwensonSDLHBLBRKC:2019:SPMiAd,
author = "Swenson, Charles and Spann, James F. and Dur{\~a}o, Ot{\'a}vio
Santos Cupertino and Loures, Lu{\'{\i}}s and Heelis, Roderick A.
and Bishop, Rebecca L. and Le, Guan and Bonalsky, Todd M. and
Ridenti, Marco Ant{\^o}nio and Krause, Linda Habash and Costa,
Joaquim Eduardo Rezende",
affiliation = "{Utah State University} and {NASA Headquarters} and {Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto
Tecnol{\'o}gico de Aeron{\'a}utica (ITA)} and {University Texas
Dallas} and {The Aerospace Corporation} and {NASA Goddard Space
Flight Center} and {NASA Goddard Space Flight Center} and
{Instituto Tecnol{\'o}gico de Aeron{\'a}utica (ITA)} and {NASA
Marshall Space Flght Ctr} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)}",
title = "The SPORT Mission and an Ad-Hoc Constellation in the Mid and
Low-Latitude Ionosphere",
year = "2019",
organization = "AGU Fall Meeting",
abstract = "The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) is
a 6U CubeSat mission to advance the scientific understanding of
the preconditions leading to equatorial plasma bubbles. The
scientific literature describes these preconditions in both the
ionospheric drifts and the density profiles related to bubbles
forming several hours later in the evening. SPORT, being deployed
from the ISS, will provide a systematic study of the state of the
pre-bubble conditions at all longitudes sectors to enhance
understanding between geography and magnetic geometry. SPORT is an
international partnership between Brazil and the United States.
This talk will present an overview of the SPORT mission,
observation strategy, and science objectives to improve
predictions of ionospheric disturbances that affect radio
propagation of telecommunication signals. We will also discuss how
SPORT observations combined with observations from the FPMU on the
ISS and upcoming missions like LAICE, LLITED, and SORTIE can be
used as an ad-hoc constellation to study tidal forcing and
day-to-day variability of the Earths ionosphere. The upcoming
combination of satellite observations from multiple nearly
circular middle inclination orbit and the extensive operation of
ground-based observations from South America near the magnetic
equator present a unique scientific opportunity to study
ionospheric variability.",
conference-location = "San Francisco, CA",
conference-year = "09-13 dec.",
language = "en",
targetfile = "swenson_sport.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "12 maio 2024"
}