2008-017A
P00-3 PL-602 Comm/Nav Outage Forecasting System. CNOFS will be built by Spectrum Astro for launch and on-orbit delivery on Pegasus in Feb 2004. Low inclination orbit from KMR. Will develop models to map equatorial ionosphere and forecast ionos scintillation.
Orbit 375 x 720 x 13. Delayed to early 2008 following damage to solar panels 2.8m long 1m dia, modified SA-200B. Operation by AFRL and SMC/TE. Mass 360 kg Hexagonal cylinder + 6x 10m booms.
CINDI is Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamic Investigation and consists of the IVM and NWM instruments.
| C/NOFS | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Apr 16 | 1604:00 | L-1011 T/O from KMR | |
| 1702:48 | Drop | ||
| T+1:21 St 1 burnout | |||
| T+1:30 St 1 sep | |||
| T+2:10 fairing sep | |||
| T+2:49 St 2 burnout | |||
| 527 s coast | |||
| T+8:58 St 2 sep | |||
| T+9:09 St 3 burn | |||
| 1712? | T+10:16 St 3 burnout | ||
| 1713? | T+11:16 Stage 3 sep | ||
| 2008 Apr 25 | 97.29 405 x 852 x 13.0 | ||
Payload:
- PLP Planar Langmuir Probe, plasma density (AFRL-VS/Hunton)
- VEFI Vector electric field instrument (GSFC/Pfaff)
- CINDI
- IVM Ion velocity meter (SMEX MO) (UTD/Heelis)
- NWM Neutral Wind Meter, in situ composition and flow (UTD/Earle)
- CORISS C/NOFS Occultation Receiver for Ionospheric Sensing and Specification, gives electron density profile from GPS satellite rising and setting. (AeCorp/Straus)
- CERTO Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography, ionospheric radio beacons (NRL/Bernhardt
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