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Report Series: Committee on Solar and Space Physics Agile Responses to Short-Notice Rideshare Opportunities for the NASA Heliophysics Division (2020) / Chapter Skim
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... The desired response time may vary depending on the type of measurement and the nature of the opportunity. However, the target time scale would be substantially faster than typical NASA mission development times of multiple years.
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... NSF's Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment (AMPERE) geospace facility uses avionics magnetometers on the Iridium satellites to achieve effective secondary payload capability without requiring hardware accommodation, although flight software modification and implementation was necessary to obtain data not originally intended for storage and downlink.
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... is also implementing a distributed space weather sensor system utilizing secondary payloads for space weather monitoring.13 Last, ESPA ring development, as employed for the DoD Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) satellite14 and planned for NASA's IMAP mission, extends the current opportunity space for launch rideshare opportunities from CubeSats to small satellites up to ~100 kg mass.
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... This office worked with the shuttle flight planning board to manifest, coordinate, and facilitate approved experiments to fly on the numerous space shuttle flights, making use of excess space and lift capacity. Lessons learned point to the importance of building a central organization, setting standards, and developing a flexible, broad-based program.19 Finding: The future cadence of rideshare launch opportunities will increase, presenting a new organizational challenge for NASA HPD to maximize the potential for scientific return.
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