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Title: "Observing Earth's Atmosphere and Ionosphere with CubeSat Sensors"
Abstract: CubeSats in low Earth orbit can improve temporal and spatial sampling of the atmosphere and ionosphere. MIT is developing several CubeSat missions using sensors for measurements of ionospheric and upper atmospheric properties, such as vector antennas for measuring Auroral Kilometric Radio Emission, coordinated GPS radio occultation measurements for gravity wave tomography, laser occultation that leverages optical communications crosslinks for concurrent measurements of atmospheric composition and temperature, deployables for precise upper atmospheric density measurements, CCD and CMOS imaging detectors, as well as scintillators with photomultipliers for energetic particle measurements. Distributed sensors on CubeSat platforms have the potential to complement traditional satellite sensors and to improve physical models.
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