HR: 1330h
AN: SA23A-18    [Abstracts]
TI: Laboratory Validation of the Ram Wind Sensor for the CINDI Mission of Opportunity
AU: * Earle, G D
EM: earle@utdallas.edu
AF: University of Texas at Dallas, FO2.2 2601 N. Floyd Road, Richardson, Tx 75083-0688 United States
AU: Klenzing, J H
EM: jeffk@utdallas.edu
AF: University of Texas at Dallas, FO2.2 2601 N. Floyd Road, Richardson, Tx 75083-0688 United States
AU: Mahaffy, P
EM: Paul.Mahaffy@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Sciences Dept., Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Patrick, E
EM: Edward.Patrick@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Sciences Dept., Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Heelis, R
EM: heelis@utdallas.edu
AF: University of Texas at Dallas, FO2.2 2601 N. Floyd Road, Richardson, Tx 75083-0688 United States
AU: Roddy, P A
EM: roddy@utdallas.edu
AF: University of Texas at Dallas, FO2.2 2601 N. Floyd Road, Richardson, Tx 75083-0688 United States
AB: The ram wind sensor (RWS) is one of two components of the neutral wind meter instrument that is a key element in the Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI). CINDI is a mission of opportunity that will fly on the Air Force's Communications/Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) satellite, which is slated to launch in the fall of 2005. An engineering development model of the RWS instrument has been tested in a neutral beam facility at the Goddard Space Flight Center. We present the results of these tests using both argon and xenon neutral beams with velocities on the order of 3 kilometers/second. The test results illustrate the general form of the current-voltage characteristics expected from the flight instrument, and illustrate the basic validity of the measurement technique.
DE: 0399 General or miscellaneous
DE: 0694 Instrumentation and techniques
DE: 2415 Equatorial ionosphere
DE: 2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions (0335)
DE: 2494 Instruments and techniques
SC: SPA-Aeronomy [SA]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly