The Compact Radation belt Explorer, CeREs: A CubeSat mission to study electron microbursts
Abstract
Recently CubeSats have become robust and sophisticated enough to enable investigation of important scientific problems. I will describe the CubeSat mission,CeREs (Compact Radiation belt Explorer). CeREs will be launched into a high inclination low earth orbit. CeRES carries onboard, the MERiT, Miniaturized Electron pRoton Telescope, an innovative compact solid state particle telescope. CeREs will study electron microbursts, which are an important loss mechanism in Earth's radiation belts as well as electron dynamics of the radiation belts in general.
- Publication:
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42nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- July 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018cosp...42E1671K