Applied atmospheric and radiation tools that specify space environment effects for end-user systems
Abstract
Space Environment Technologies (SET) and its partners have developed, over the past 15 years, applied atmospheric, ionospheric and radiation tools that specify space environment effects for end-user systems. Out of a... [ view full abstract ]
Space Environment Technologies (SET) and its partners have developed, over the past 15 years, applied atmospheric, ionospheric and radiation tools that specify space environment effects for end-user systems. Out of a half-dozen SET operational systems we describe three where the state of one aspect of the space environment is operationally characterized in recent history, current epoch, and forecast time frames for the benefit of unique customers. First, the SET LEO Alert and Prediction System (LAPS) produces Application Readiness Level (ARL) 9 information for the USAF High Accuracy Satellite Drag Model (HASDM) system operating at the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC). Both solar and geomagnetic indices are created in LAPS, validated, and regularly delivered to JSpOC users. Second, SET’s partnership with Space Environment Corporation and the Utah State University (USU) Space Weather Center (SWC) provides global HF communications link paths for HF users based on the Global Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements (GAIM) model. Separately, GAIM runs operationally (ARL 9) at the USAF Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA). Third, the Radiation Alert and Prediction System (RAPS) is a system based on the partnership between SET and the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC). LaRC developed and runs the Nowcast of Atmospheric Ionizing Radiation System (NAIRAS) global physics-based model of radiation climatology. These data are enhanced in real-time by the SET Automated Radiation Measurements for Aerospace Safety (ARMAS) system (ARL 8) making global dose rate measurements on commercial altitude aircraft. A real-time global effective dose rate weather product is being developed for pilots and air traffic control users. Details and examples of these commercial space weather systems are highlighted in this presentation
Authors
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W. Kent Tobiska
(Space Environment Technologies)
Topic Areas
Radiation Effects (e.g., SEE, TID, DDD) , Commercial Implications , Radiation
Session
Session 9b » Modeling (14:00 - Thursday, 18th May)
Paper
Tobiska_ASEC.pdf
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