[IGPP Everyone] NOW: Space Physics Seminar, Friday Jan. 23rd: The CSSWE CubeSat: Understanding the outer radiation belt through modeling and measurements (Q. Schiller, CU LASP)

[Emmanuel V. Masongsong]

SPACE PHYSICS SEMINAR 

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH, PLANETARY, AND SPACE SCIENCES 

DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 

(EPSS M288A, AOS M275A ) 







Quintin Schiller 


CU LASP 





The CSSWE CubeSat: Understanding the outer radiation belt through modeling and measurements 








Abstract: 


The Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment (CSSWE) is a 3U CubeSat designed, built, tested, and operated by students at the University of Colorado. CSSWE was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in September, 2012; its fully successful mission currently ongoing and overlapping with the Van Allen Probes, THEMIS, and BARREL. Onboard CSSWE is a particle telescope designed to measure energetic particles in Earth's magnetosphere, such as electrons in the outer radiation belt. From its low altitude, high inclination orbit, CSSWE observes the particles as they precipitate into Earth's atmosphere. The low altitude measurements, in conjunction with equatorial observations, are used to better understand the competing loss and source processes that make the outer radiation belt a dynamic, unpredictable region. 





Friday, January 23rd, 2015 

Room 6704 Geology 

3:30 - 5:00 PM 



Refreshments served after the seminar in Room 6850. 



In-Charge 
V. Angelopoulos 







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