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COSPAR Task Group on Establishing a Constellation of Small Satellites: Science with Cubesats, Small Satellites, and Constellations - Astronomy & Astrophysics from space

Mustapha Meftah

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The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) established a new Task Group in 2019 to develop an "actionable" plan for an international constellation of small satellites. The COSPAR team, known formally as the Task Group on establishing a Constellation of Small Satellites (TGCSS), began its deliberative work in early March of 2020. The work of the Task Force follows from a recommendation made in the COSPAR Roadmap, Small Satellites for Space Science, which was published in Advances in Space Research in 2019. The Roadmap presented science visions, in disciplines ranging from Earth and geospace sciences to planetary science to astronomy, that could be pursued with small satellites and small satellite constellations. In this presentation, members of the study team will give a summary of the COSPAR Roadmap visions relating to Science with Cubesats, Small Satellites, and Constellations. It was suggested that a particularly useful constellation would be one that monitor solar flares in Lyman-alpha rather than X-ray or XUV but not only since Lyman-alpha, much like H-Alpha, is an excellent flares/CMEs precursor indicators since of filaments and emerging bipolar region high visibility (space weather direct application). Indeed, solar Lyman-alpha Emissions are important for Space Weather. Another important scientific topic is to monitor solar spectral irradiance using new miniaturized double monochromators, which could be carried out on board small satellites. The availability of reference spectra for the Solar Spectral Irradiance is important for solar physics, the studies of planetary atmospheres and climatology. These questions have been posed whether COSPAR entities are interested in this small satellites program and what elements the adherent nations might wish to "lay on the table" now or in the near future. Orchestrating a community-driven effort in astronomy and astrophysics, COSPAR can perform a worthwhile service to the space community and the nations of the world by advancing science, and by building capacity amongst nations that presently have little (or no) space involvement. By bringing more developing nations to the "space exploration table" using small satellites, COSPAR will greatly increase and benefit the entire space enterprise.
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insu-04468102 , version 1 (20-02-2024)

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Mustapha Meftah. COSPAR Task Group on Establishing a Constellation of Small Satellites: Science with Cubesats, Small Satellites, and Constellations - Astronomy & Astrophysics from space. 43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Jan 2021, Sydney, Australia. pp.1521. ⟨insu-04468102⟩
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