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Earth Atmosphere Observatory Formation at L2This 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.
Document ID
20090007587
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Mettler, Edward
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Acikmese, A. Behcet
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Breckenridge, William G.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Mecenka, Steven A.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Tubbs, Eldred F.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
September 28, 2004
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Meeting Information
Meeting: AIAA Space Conference
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: September 28, 2004
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
observatory
mirror
lagrange point L2
formation

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