Space disturbance warning system with the aid of satellites

A space environment monitoring and space warning system is proposed for forecasting space disturbances and automatically broadcasting warnings to space users. The system consists of an elliptically orbiting satellite and a GEO satellite instrumented to monitor the solar wind, polar cusp phenomena, and substorm phenomena. Measurements would be taken of solar active regions, hot plasma, high energy particles, magnetic and static electric fields, plasma waves, radio noise, plasmaspheric radio emissions, the total ionospheric electron content or scintillations, and solar X-ray fluxes. Warning would be broadcast to a ground control station using uplink/downlink frequencies of 2.1/2.2 GHz, with a 1.7 GHz link to the GEO component. An elliptical orbit with an apogee of 153,600 km and an inclination of 70 deg has been identified.