The NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission addresses how populationsof high energy charged particles are created, vary, and evolve in space environments,and specifically within Earths magnetically trapped radiation belts. RBSP, with a nominallaunch date of August 2012, comprises two spacecraft making in situ measurements for atleast 2 years in nearly the same highly elliptical, low inclination orbits (1.1 5.8 RE, 10).The orbits are slightly different so that 1 spacecraft laps the other spacecraft about every2.5 months, allowing separation of spatial from temporal effects over spatial scales rangingfrom 0.1 to 5 RE. The uniquely comprehensive suite of instruments, identical on the twospacecraft, measures all of the particle (electrons, ions, ion composition), fields (E and B),and wave distributions (dE and dB) that are needed to resolve the most critical science questions.Here we summarize the high level science objectives for the RBSP mission, providehistorical background on studies of Earth and planetary radiation belts, present examples ofthe most compelling scientific mysteries of the radiation belts, present the mission design ofthe RBSP mission that targets these mysteries and objectives, present the observation andmeasurement requirements for the mission, and introduce the instrumentation that will deliverthese measurements. This paper references and is followed by a number of companionpapers that describe the details of the RBSP mission, spacecraft, and instruments.


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    Titel :

    Science Objectives and Rationale for the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission


    Beteiligte:
    Mauk, B.H. (Autor:in) / Fox, Nicola J. (Autor:in) / Kanekal, S. G. (Autor:in) / Kessel, R. L. (Autor:in) / Sibek, D. G. (Autor:in) / Ukhorskiy, A. (Autor:in)

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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2012-09-07


    Medientyp :

    Sonstige


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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