智能群在磁层研究中的应用和潜力
Applications And Potentials Of Intelligent Swarms For Magnetospheric Studies
摘要：
地球的磁层对当今依赖技术的社会至关重要。到目前为止，已经进行了许多设计研究，并有十几个科学任务已经开始研究磁层。然而，这些解决办法大多依赖于大型单片卫星，这限制了这些调查的空间分辨率，过去的技术限制也是如此。为了克服这些局限性，我们建议使用一个卫星群进行磁层测量的众多和分布式的有效载荷。我们的任务被命名为APIS（智能群的应用和潜力），其目的是描述地球磁层中基本等离子体过程的特征，并测量太阳风对我们磁层的影响。我们提出了一个群的40个立方体卫星在两个高度椭圆轨道围绕地球，在磁尾在8-12地球半径（RE）下游，和太阳下磁层在8- 12 RE上游进行无线电断层扫描。此外，还将通过机载仪器对磁场和电场以及等离子体密度进行现场测量。在这篇文章中，我们提出了以前的任务和磁层研究的设计，随着科学的驱动程序和动机的APIS任务的大纲。此外，初步的设计结果，包括显示这样的任务的可行性。科学需求推动了APIS的任务设计、任务操作和系统需求。除了各种科学有效载荷外，还研究了卫星的关键子系统，例如，导航、通信、处理和电力系统。我们总结了我们的研究结果，以及加强我们的设计研究的潜在下一步。
英文摘要：
Earth's magnetosphere is vital for today's technologically dependent society. To date, numerous design studies have been conducted and over a dozen science missions have own to study the magnetosphere. However, a majority of these solutions relied on large monolithic satellites, which limited the spatial resolution of these investigations, as did the technological limitations of the past. To counter these limitations, we propose the use of a satellite swarm carrying numerous and distributed payloads for magnetospheric measurements. Our mission is named APIS (Applications and Potentials of Intelligent Swarms), which aims to characterize fundamental plasma processes in the Earth's magnetosphere and measure the effect of the solar wind on our magnetosphere. We propose a swarm of 40 CubeSats in two highly-elliptical orbits around the Earth, which perform radio tomography in the magnetotail at 8-12 Earth Radii (RE) downstream, and the subsolar magnetosphere at 8-12RE upstream. In addition, in-situ measurements of the magnetic and electric fields, plasma density will be performed by on-board instruments. In this article, we present an outline of previous missions and designs for magnetospheric studies, along with the science drivers and motivation for the APIS mission. Furthermore, preliminary design results are included to show the feasibility of such a mission. The science requirements drive the APIS mission design, the mission operation and the system requirements. In addition to the various science payloads, critical subsystems of the satellites are investigated e.g., navigation, communication, processing and power systems. We summarize our findings, along with the potential next steps to strengthen our design study.
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