"CONSTELLATION" MISSIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH

"Developing a Strategy for Magnetospheric Research"
                by David P. Stern .... Eos, 77,165 & 168, 23 April 1996.

The "Profile" Mission
                Introduction to an older web site on "Profile",
                linked to the two articles listed below.

Planning the "Profile" Multiprobe Mission
                Presented at the 1997 Fall meeting of the AGU and later published
                on p.66-71 in "Science Closure and Enabling Technologies
                for Constellation Class Missions" (V. Angelopoulos and P.V. Panetta,
                editors; v + 151 pp., Univ. Calif., Berkeley, 1998)

Science Tasks for "Profile"
                Presented at the 1997 Fall meeting of the AGU and later published
                on p.136-141 in "Science Closure and Enabling Technologies
                for Constellation Class Missions" (V. Angelopoulos and P.V. Panetta,
                editors; v + 151 pp., Univ. Calif., Berkeley, 1998)

Systematic Identification of Preferred Orbits for
Magnetospheric Missions: 1. Single Satellites.
                by David P. Stern,         J. Astronaut. Sciences, 49
                        p.559-583, October-December 2001.

Systematic Identification of Preferred Orbits for
Magnetospheric Missions: 2. The "Profile" Constellation.
                by David P. Stern,         J. Astronaut. Sciences, 50
                        p.149-171, April-June 2002.

Note added (3 June 2003) supplementing the two above articles, "Systematic
                Identification of Preferred Orbits for Magnetospheric Missions."

"DRACO" mission definition team report
      (NASA document NASA/TM--2001--209985,
      May 2001, PDF format on www.phy6.org server, 2.1 Mb)

"MagCON" supplement of mission definition team report
      (NASA document 1 January 2005, PDF format on www.phy6.org server, 3.4 Mb.)
               

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