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Fundamentals of impulsive energy release in the corona
Albert Y. Shih, Lindsay Glesener, Säm Krucker +30
It is essential that there be coordinated and co-optimized observations in X-rays, gamma-rays, and EUV during the peak of solar cycle 26 (~2036) to significantly advance our unders…
Small Platforms, High Return: The Need to Enhance Investment in Small Satellites for Focused Science, Career Development, and Improved Equity
James Paul Mason, Robert G. Begbie, Maitland Bowen +33
In the next decade, there is an opportunity for very high return on investment of relatively small budgets by elevating the priority of smallsat funding in heliophysics. We've lear…
Solaris: A Focused Solar Polar Discovery-class Mission to achieve the Highest Priority Heliophysics Science Now
Donald M. Hassler, Sarah E Gibson, Jeffrey S Newmark +33
Solaris is a transformative Solar Polar Discovery-class mission concept to address crucial outstanding questions that can only be answered from a polar vantage. Solaris will image…
A Compact Full-disk Solar Magnetograph based on miniaturization of GONG instrument
Sanjay Gosain, Jack Harvey, Valentin Martinez-Pillet +2
Designing compact instruments is the key for the scientific exploration by smaller spacecrafts such as cubesats or by deep space missions. Such missions require compact instrument…
Achievements and Lessons Learned from Successful Small Satellite Missions for Space Weather-Oriented Research
Harlan E. Spence, Amir Caspi, Hasan Bahcivan +14
When the first CubeSats were launched nearly two decades ago, few people believed that the miniature satellites would likely prove to be a useful scientific tool. Skeptics abounded…
Simultaneous High Dynamic Range Algorithm, Testing, and Instrument Simulation
James Paul Mason, Daniel B. Seaton, Andrew R. Jones +4
Within an imaging instrument's field of view, there may be many observational targets of interest. Similarly, within a spectrograph's bandpass, there may be many emission lines of…
MinXSS-2 CubeSat mission overview: Improvements from the successful MinXSS-1 mission
James Paul Mason, Thomas N. Woods, Phillip C. Chamberlin +9
The second Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS-2) CubeSat, which begins its flight in late 2018, builds on the success of MinXSS-1, which flew from 2016-05-16 to 2017-05-06.…
MinXSS-1 CubeSat On-Orbit Pointing and Power Performance: The First Flight of the Blue Canyon Technologies XACT 3-axis Attitude Determination and Control System
James Paul Mason, Matt Baumgart, Bryan Rogler +10
The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) is a 3 Unit (3U) CubeSat designed for a 3-month mission to study solar soft X-ray spectral irradiance. The first of the two flight m…
The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) CubeSats: spectrometer characterization techniques, spectrometer capabilities, and solar science objectives
Christopher S. Moore, Thomas N. Woods, Amir Caspi +1
The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) are twin 3U CubeSats. The first of the twin CubeSats (MinXSS-1) launched in December 2015 to the International Space Station for dep…
Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) - A Science-Oriented, University 3U CubeSat
James P. Mason, Thomas N. Woods, Amir Caspi +7
The Miniature X-ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS) is a 3-Unit (3U) CubeSat developed at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder…
On-Orbit Degradation of Solar Instruments
A. BenMoussa, S. Gissot, U. Schühle +38
We present the lessons learned about the degradation observed in several space solar missions, based on contributions at the Workshop about On-Orbit Degradation of Solar and Space…