Space weather, earth’s neutral upper atmosphere (thermosphere), and spacecraft orbital lifetime/dynamics

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1920-1930

  Owens, Jerry K ^a   Vaughan, William W ^b   Niehuss, Keith O ^a   Minow, Joseph ^c  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c JACOBS TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere (thermosph re): Structure dynamics; Modeling; Solar activity cycle variations; Space weather; Spacecraft interactions

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; DYNAMICS; GEOMAGNETISM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITES; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE RESEARCH; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ORBITAL LIFETIME PREDICTION MODEL; STRUCTURE DYNAMICS;

PLASMA THEORY;

EID: 0034461013     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.902220     Document Type: Article

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