Next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system designed to significantly improve ground communications for U.S. forces on the move.
"SMAP provide the most accurate, highest-resolution global measurements of soil moisture ever obtained from space and will detect whether the ground is frozen or thawed. "
"One of a simultaneously-launched pair studying space weather, in particular - electron microbursts in the Van Allen radiation belts."
"One of a simultaneously-launched pair studying space weather, in particular - electron microbursts in the Van Allen radiation belts."
Measuring the Elemental Composition of the Exosphere
"4 satellites in a tetrahedral formation - gather information about the microphysics of magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and turbulence, processes that occur in many astrophysical plasmas"
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