The Van Allen Probes Mission

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fox, Nicola (Editor), Burch, James L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Physics.; Space sciences.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.; Plasma Physics.

This collection of articles provides broad and detailed information about NASA’s Van Allen Probes (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes) twin-spacecraft Earth-orbiting mission. The mission has the objective of achieving predictive understanding of the dynamic, intense, energetic, danger...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Science Objectives and Rationale for the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission
• Mission Overview for the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission
• Radiation Belt Storm Probes – Observatory and Environments
• The Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) on RBSP
• The Electric Field and Waves (EFW) Instruments on the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission.