Description of Research Project

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Boston University

2017-05-08ELS_191672

Description of Research Project – ANDESITE Satellite Mission

Space weather arises from interactions between the Earth’s plasma environment and the
impinging solar wind. These interactions can damage satellites, harm astronauts in space, render
GPS information erratic and unreliable, disrupt ground-space communications, and even cause
electricity blackouts on Earth.

ANDESITE is a small satellite swarm dispersed in orbit over tens of kilometers; it will measure
relative variations of the Earth’s magnetic field as it flies through the aurora. This will support
mapping the current densities due to energetic charged particles moving into and out of the
atmosphere, in the polar regions where the aurora occurs, to improve our understanding of space
weather.

The communications requested to be licensed are necessary to collect data from the sensor
nodes, and to relay the data to earth, and to send commands to the satellites.

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