Remote sensing of the thermosphere, plasmasphere, and exosphere

Conference · Fri Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990 · IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA)

OSTI ID:6606753

Chakrabarti, S; Bush, B; Cotton, D; Gladstone, G R; Link, R ^[1]; Barbee, Jr, T W ^[2]

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1. California Univ., Berkeley, CA (USA). Space Sciences Lab.
2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)

The authors describe an instrument package to remotely measure thermospheric, exospheric and plasmaspheric structure and composition. This instrument will be flown aboard the second test flight of the Black Brant XII rocket with an expected apogee of {approximately} 1300 km. The experiment package for this flight consists of a spectrophotometer to measure He I 584 {angstrom}, O II 834 {angstrom}, O I 989 {angstrom}, hydrogen Lyman {beta} (1025 {angstrom}), hydrogen Lyman {alpha} (1216 {angstrom}) and O I 1304 {angstrom} transitions, and a photometer to measure the He II 304 {angstrom} emission.

• OSTI ID: 6606753
• Report Number(s): CONF-900143--; CNN: NAG-5-646; NAGW-1735
• Conference Information: Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (USA) Journal Volume: 37:3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
DESIGN
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
EARTH MAGNETOSPHERE
ELEMENTS
EMISSION SPECTRA
EXOSPHERE
FLUIDS
GASES
HELIUM
HYDROGEN
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
NONMETALS
ON-LINE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
ON-LINE SYSTEMS
OPTICAL SYSTEMS
OXYGEN
PLASMASPHERE
RARE GASES
REMOTE SENSING
SPACE FLIGHT
SPECTRA
SPECTROPHOTOMETERS
THERMOSPHERE