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| Title: | Earth atmosphere observatory formation at L2 |
| Authors: | Mettler, Edward
Aςkmeşe, A. Behςet
Breckenridge, William G.
Mecenka, Steven A.
Tubbs, Eldred F. |
| Keywords: | lagrange point L2
observatory
formation
mirror |
| Issue Date: | 28-Sep-2004 |
| Publisher: | Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004. |
| Citation: | AIAA Space Conference, San Diego, California, September 28, 2004. |
| Abstract: | This paper is a product of research supported by NASA under RASC (the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts) program. It presents an overall system architecture, and covers issues of deployment, navigation, and control related to a formation of two spacecraft in the neighborhood of the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point (on the Sun-Earth line), that serves as an observatory of Earth's atmosphere. The observatory concept definition study was a multi-center NASA effort conducted in 2003, and covered a much wider scope than is presented in this focused paper.
The Earth observatory at L2 is a unique design concept that can improve the knowledge and understanding of dynamic, chemical and radiative mechanisms that cause changes in the atmosphere, and can lead to the development of models and techniques to predict short and long-term climate changes. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/41037 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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