@InProceedings{SwensonBCDDHKLLRS:2022:MeLoRe,
               author = "Swenson, Charles and Bishop, Rebecca and Costa, Joaquim Eduardo 
                         Rezende and Denardini, Clezio Marcos and Dur{\~a}o, Ot{\'a}vio 
                         Cupertino dos Santos and Heelis, Roderick and Kruase, Linda and 
                         Le, Guan and Loures, Luis and Ridenti, Marco and Spann, James",
          affiliation = "{Utah State University} and {The Aerospace Corporation} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto Nacional de 
                         Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {University of Texas at Dallas} 
                         and {NASA MSFC} and {NASA GSFC} and {Instituto Tecnol{\'o}gico de 
                         Aeron{\'a}utica (ITA)} and {Instituto Tecnol{\'o}gico de 
                         Aeron{\'a}utica (ITA)} and {NASA Headquarters}",
                title = "Measurements of the lower-thermosphere-ionosphere region usiong 
                         the SPORT cubesat mission",
                 year = "2022",
         organization = "COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 44.",
             abstract = "The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT) is 
                         a 6U CubeSat mission to advance the scientific understanding of 
                         both the preconditions leading to equatorial plasma bubbles and 
                         the structures that result in scintillation on RF signals. As such 
                         it has a relatively complete complement of instruments for 
                         ionospheric plasma diagnostics, a combined retarding potential 
                         analyzer and ion drift meter, GPS radio occultation experiment, a 
                         science grade magnetometer, a Langmuir probe, a impedance probe, 
                         and one axis of an electric field double probe. SPORT is an 
                         international partnership between Brazil and the United States 
                         with a target launch date of August 15th, 2022 from the ISS at 400 
                         km and 51° Inclination. The SPORT spacecraft has a relatively high 
                         ballistic coefficient, and its orbit will decay over the 
                         succeeding years until it begins to enter the 
                         Lower-Thermosphere-Ionosphere region. This talk will present an 
                         overview of the SPORT mission, observation strategy, and science 
                         ob- jectives. It will then review the feasibility and performance 
                         of SPORT instrumentation, and similar mission designs, for 
                         collecting in-situ scientific observations near end-of-life within 
                         the Lower-Thermosphere-Ionosphere region. SPORT will make 
                         relatively few orbits within the Lower-Thermosphere-Ionosphere, 
                         but the dataset produced will continuously cover all longitude 
                         sectors contrasting with dipper missions which sample sporadically 
                         in longitude sectors but provide observations covering a longer 
                         period. We will review plans to recover data from SPORT within the 
                         Lower-Thermosphere-Ionosphere region.",
  conference-location = "Athens, Greece",
      conference-year = "16-24 July 2022",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "C1.4-0008-22-oral.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "11 maio 2024"
}