论文标题
微笑任务
The SMILE mission
论文作者
论文摘要
本章介绍了欧洲航天局和中国科学院的联合项目,介绍了目前正在开发的微笑(太阳能电网电离层链接探索者)任务。 Smile旨在通过将地球的磁石和尖端对X射线进行成像时,以一种非常新颖和全球的方式研究太阳风与地面磁层,当高电荷太阳能风离子离子用外层中性中性发出时发出。 Smile将其与北部极光的同时紫外线成像,原位等离子体和磁场的磁场测量,同时在高度椭圆形的北极轨道上飞行时。在本章中,描述了对微笑的针对性进行调查的科学简要介绍,有效载荷和航天器以及其发展的进展。在太空中的任务操作,地面细分市场和科学准备工作,以确保还提出了对微笑测量的最佳开发。国际太空等离子体和行星群落期待着通过使我们看不见的我们看不见的地面磁层所带来的台阶变化。
This chapter describes the SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) mission, currently under development as a joint project of the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. SMILE aims to study the solar wind coupling with the terrestrial magnetosphere in a very novel and global way, by imaging the Earth's magnetosheath and cusps in X-rays emitted when high charge-state solar wind ions exchange charges with exospheric neutrals. SMILE combines this with simultaneous UV imaging of the northern aurora and in-situ plasma and magnetic field measurements of the magnetosheath and solar wind while flying in a highly elliptical northern polar orbit. In this chapter, after a brief introduction to the science that SMILE is targeted to investigate, the payload and the spacecraft, and progress in their development, are described. The mission operations in space, the ground segment and the scientific preparations that will ensure the optimal exploitation of SMILE measurements are also presented. The international space plasma and planetary communities are looking forward to the step change that SMILE will provide by making visible our invisible terrestrial magnetosphere.