Design, Development, Implementation, and On-orbit Performance of the Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment Mission
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Funded by the NSF CubeSat and NASA ELaNa programs, the Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment (DICE) mission consists of two 1.5U CubeSats which were launched into an eccentric low Earth orbit on October 28, 2011. Each identical spacecraft carries two Langmuir probes to measure ionospheric in-situ plasma densities, electric field C.S. Fish (B) Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University Research Foundation, 1695 North Research Park Way, North Logan, UT 84341, USA e-mail: [email protected] C.S. Fish Center for Space Engineering, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA C.S. Fish Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA C.M. Swenson · J. Gunther · R. Fullmer · R. Baktur · J. Sojka Utah State University, 4100 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT, USA G. Crowley · I. Azeem · M. Pilinski · R. Wilder Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates, LLC, 5777 Central Ave., Ste. 221, Boulder, CO, USA A. Barjatya Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL, USA T. Neilsen · D. Allen · M. Anderson · B. Bingham · K. Bradford · S. Burr · R. Burt · B. Byers · J. Cook · K. Davis · C. Frazier · S. Grover · G. Hansen · S. Jensen · R. LeBaron · J. Martineau · J. Miller · J. Nelsen · W. Nelson · P. Patterson · E. Stromberg · J. Tran · S. Wassom · C. Weston · M. Whiteley · Q. Young Space Dynamics Laboratory, North Logan, UT, USA
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