"CONSTELLATION" MISSIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH
This page: http://www.phy6.org/Education/Future.htm
Central linking page: http://www.phy6.org/readfirst.htm
Introductions and Overview
Discussion of current state and
future plans, including discussion 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 & 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 & 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.
"Cross-Scale" implementation by the "Profile" scenario
by David P. Stern and Douglas E. Rowland,
Poster presentation for the "Cross-Scale" mission meeting
at Imperial College, London, September 4-5, 2006.
Note added (3 June 2003) supplementing the celestial mechanics calculation
of 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 (2.1 Mb).
Copy to your computer from this server, then open it there.
"MagCON" supplement of mission definition team report
(NASA document 1 January 2005, PDF format (3.4 Mb).
Copy to your computer from this server, then open it there.
Presentations at "Road Map" meeting in College Park, 19 May 2008.
Contains link to 12.1 Mb poster.
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