... future plans, including descriptions of files described below. Developing a Strategy for Magnetospheric Research" . by David P. Stern .. ... The "Profile" Mission . ... Planning the "Profile" Multiprobe Mission . ... for Constellation Class Missions " (V. Angelopoulos and P.V. Panetta, . ... Magnetospheric Missions: 1. ... p.559-583, October-December 2001. ... The "Profile" Constellation. by David P. Stern, J. Astronaut. ... Identification of Preferred Orbits for Magnetospheric Missions." ...

This groups includes about 200 communication satellites ("comsats") scattered in synchronous orbits above the Earth's equator. ... 6 Earth radii (42,000 km or 26,000 miles), these satellite make one orbit per day, and therefore as the Earth turns, they always stay above the same ground station. ... Still another application is the 24-satellite network of the "Global Positioning System" (GPS), in circular orbits at distances of about 4.1 Earth radii (26,000 km or 16,000 miles). ...

... On some space shuttle missions, there are opportunities for observers in the continental United States and Hawaii to see the orbiter fly overhead. ... The second item is a Space Shuttle Mission Chart, which is a Mercator projection map of the world with the orbiter's orbits superimposed on Earth's surface. ... Shuttles are launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which is at a latitude of 28.5њ north. ... NASA Johnson Space Center . ... You will see that Shuttle orbits just graze the globe...

Cosmic Research, Vol. 42, No. 5, 2004, pp. 435­488. Translated from Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, Vol. 42, No. 5, 2004, pp. 453­508. Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Veselovsky, Panasyuk, Avdyushin, Bazilevskaya, Belov, Bogachev, Bogod, Bogomolov, Bothmer, Boyarchuk, Vashenyuk, Vlasov, Gnezdilov, Gorgutsa, Grechnev, Denisov, Dmitriev, Dryer, Yermolaev, Eroshenko, Zherebtsov, Zhitnik, Zhukov, Zastenker, Zelenyi, Zeldovich, Ivanov-Kholodnyi, Ignat'ev, Ishkov, Kolomiytsev, Krasheninnikov, Kudela,