Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment (CIRCE), in situ and Remote Ionospheric Sensing (IRIS) suite

Gemma D.R. Attrill; Andrew C. Nicholas; Graham Routledge; Junayd A. Miah; Dhiren O. Kataria; Cathryn N. Mitchell; Robert J. Watson; James Williams; Alex Agathanggelou; Charles M. Brown; Scott A. Budzien; Tobias Carman; Rahil Chaudery; Kenneth F. Dymond; Ted T. Finne; Alex Fortnam; Bruce Fritz; Alex Hands; Peter J. Marquis; Sean Murphy; Talini Pinto-Jayawardena; Duncan Rust; Keith A. Ryden; Dave Schofield; Andrew W. Stephan; Kevin Wiggins; Craig Underwood

doi:10.1051/swsc/2020066

Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment (CIRCE), in situ and Remote Ionospheric Sensing (IRIS) suite

Gemma D.R. Attrill, Andrew C. Nicholas, Graham Routledge, Junayd A. Miah, Dhiren O. Kataria, Cathryn N. Mitchell, Robert J. Watson, James Williams, Alex Agathanggelou, Charles M. Brown, Scott A. Budzien, Tobias Carman, Rahil Chaudery, Kenneth F. Dymond, Ted T. Finne, Alex Fortnam, Bruce Fritz, Alex Hands, Peter J. Marquis, Sean MurphyTalini Pinto-Jayawardena, Duncan Rust, Keith A. Ryden, Dave Schofield, Andrew W. Stephan, Kevin Wiggins, Craig Underwood

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The UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is partnering with the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) on a joint mission to launch miniature sensors that will advance space weather measurement and modelling capabilities. The Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction Cubesat Experiment (CIRCE) comprises two 6U cube-satellites that will be launched into a near-polar low earth orbit (LEO), targeting 500 km altitude, in 2021. The UK contribution to CIRCE is the In situ and Remote Ionospheric Sensing (IRIS) suite, complementary to NRL sensors, and comprising three highly miniaturised payloads provided to Dstl by University College London (UCL), University of Bath, and University of Surrey/Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL). One IRIS suite will be flown on each satellite, and incorporates an ion/neutral mass spectrometer, a tri-band global positioning system (GPS) receiver for ionospheric remote sensing, and a radiation environment monitor. From the US, NRL have provided two 1U Triple Tiny Ionospheric Photometers (Tri-TIPs) on each satellite (Nicholas et al., 2019), observing the ultraviolet 135.6 nm emission of atomic oxygen at night-time to characterize the two-dimensional distribution of electrons.

Original language	English
Article number	2020066
Journal	Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate
Volume	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2020066
Publication status	Published - 18 Feb 2021

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Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. The authors sincerely thank the referees for their thoughtful comments and helpful suggestions. The CIRCE mission is a jointly-funded programme between the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the US Naval Research Laboratory. The UK’s IRIS payloads acknowledge funding from Dstl’s space programme. Work at NRL for all authors is supported by the Chief of Naval Research. We acknowledge with thanks the work of the team at Blue Canyon Technologies. Content includes material subject to ©Crown copyright (2020), Dstl. This material is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit http:// www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ version/3 or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: psi@ nationalarchives.gov.uk. The editor thanks two anonymous reviewers for their assistance in evaluating this paper.

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© EDP Sciences 2021.

Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords

Cube-satellite
Ionosphere
Space weather

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Space and Planetary Science

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Attrill, G. D. R., Nicholas, A. C., Routledge, G., Miah, J. A., Kataria, D. O., Mitchell, C. N., Watson, R. J., Williams, J., Agathanggelou, A., Brown, C. M., Budzien, S. A., Carman, T., Chaudery, R., Dymond, K. F., Finne, T. T., Fortnam, A., Fritz, B., Hands, A., Marquis, P. J., ... Underwood, C. (2021). Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment (CIRCE), in situ and Remote Ionospheric Sensing (IRIS) suite. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 11, Article 2020066. https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2020066

Attrill, GDR, Nicholas, AC, Routledge, G, Miah, JA, Kataria, DO, Mitchell, CN , Watson, RJ, Williams, J, Agathanggelou, A, Brown, CM, Budzien, SA, Carman, T, Chaudery, R, Dymond, KF, Finne, TT, Fortnam, A, Fritz, B, Hands, A, Marquis, PJ, Murphy, S, Pinto-Jayawardena, T, Rust, D, Ryden, KA, Schofield, D, Stephan, AW, Wiggins, K & Underwood, C 2021, 'Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction CubeSat Experiment (CIRCE), in situ and Remote Ionospheric Sensing (IRIS) suite', Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, vol. 11, 2020066. https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2020066

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