SuperDARN Supports Multiple Campaigns

By: ksterne on: Thu., Nov. 05, 2015 02:45 PM EST (7775 Reads)

Starting in late September 2015, SuperDARN started a new campaign in order to support data being collected on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission launched by NASA. In addition, the SuperDARN network has been scheduling modes to support new-moon periods over North America to collaborate with all-sky imagers in this area. Lastly, the SuperDARN network continues to identify and schedule periods where the Van Allen probe footprints are within SuperDARN radar field-of-views.

For a link to the web site for the Spacecraft Working Group click here
http://vt.superdarn.org/tiki-index.php?page=Spacecraft+Working+Group&no_bl=y

For support of the MMS mission, the SuperDARN radar network has been requested to run the high-time resolution camping beam mode that originated to support THEMIS operations. This mode is requested for each time the MMS satellites are crossing the magnetopause and generally lasting for 12 hours at a time. The plan is to continue requesting this mode through this first phase of magnetopause crossings into early February 2016.

For more information on the MMS mission, click here

SuperDARN Supports Multiple Campaigns

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