"CONSTELLATION" MISSIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH
Introductions and Overview
Discussion of current state and
future plans, including descriptions 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 and 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 and 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.
Note added (3 June 2003) supplementing 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 on www.phy6.org server, 2.1 Mb)
"MagCON" supplement of mission definition team report
(NASA document 1 January 2005, PDF format on www.phy6.org server, 3.4 Mb.)
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