Publication Date:
2019-08-21
Description:
Resolving the complex three-dimensional turbulent structures that characterize the solar wind requires contemporaneous spatially and temporally distributed measurements. HelioSwarm is a mission concept that will deploy multiple, co-orbiting satellites to use the solar wind as a natural laboratory for understanding the fundamental, universal process of plasma turbulence. The HelioSwarm transfer trajectory and science orbit use a lunar gravity assist to deliver the ESPA-class nodes attached to a large data transfer hub to a P/2 lunar resonant orbit. Once deployed in the science orbit, the free-flying, propulsive nodes use simple Cartesian relative motion patterns to establish baseline separations both along and across the solar wind flow direction.
Keywords:
Solar Physics
Type:
AAS 19-831
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ARC-E-DAA-TN72004
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AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference; Aug 11, 2019 - Aug 15, 2019; Portland, ME; United States
Format:
application/pdf
