{"title":"Preface: Lunar environment effects resulting from human exploration and occupation of the Moon","authors":"Rosemary M. Killen (Guest Editor)","doi":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.10.027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.10.027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50850,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Space Research","volume":"74 11","pages":"Page 6157"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alberto Abad , Antonio Elipe , Alessandra F.S. Ferreira
{"title":"Periodic orbits around 216-Kleopatra asteroid modelled by a dipole-segment","authors":"Alberto Abad , Antonio Elipe , Alessandra F.S. Ferreira","doi":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.10.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.10.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Asteroid 216-Kleopatra presents a ham-bone shape, that is to say, it is quite elongated body with two protuberances on its end-points, which makes of it the perfect candidate to model its shape and mass distribution by a Dipole-Segment, consisting on a massive segment with two spherical masses at the end-points of the rod and that is rotating about its center of mass with uniform velocity. Once obtained an approximation of the actual values of the involved parameters from recent results of Burov and coworkers, we obtain the complete map of families of symmetric periodic orbits, and describe the orbits of the different families, its parametric evolution, stability and also we compute the heteroclinic orbits connecting unstable isosceles equilibria.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50850,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Space Research","volume":"74 11","pages":"Pages 5687-5697"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tian Zhang , Hong Tang , Xiongyao Li , Chuanjiao Zhou , Wen Yu , Bing Mo , Jianzhong Liu , Xiaojia Zeng
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Np-Fe0 addition affects the microstructure and composition of the microwave-sintered lunar soil simulant CLRS-2” [Adv. Space Res. 73(1) (2024) 945–957]","authors":"Tian Zhang , Hong Tang , Xiongyao Li , Chuanjiao Zhou , Wen Yu , Bing Mo , Jianzhong Liu , Xiaojia Zeng","doi":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.08.070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.08.070","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50850,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Space Research","volume":"74 11","pages":"Page 6247"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ingrid Cnossen , John T. Emmert , Rolando R. Garcia , Ana G. Elias , Martin G. Mlynczak , Shun-Rong Zhang
{"title":"A review of global long-term changes in the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere: A starting point for inclusion in (semi-) empirical models","authors":"Ingrid Cnossen , John T. Emmert , Rolando R. Garcia , Ana G. Elias , Martin G. Mlynczak , Shun-Rong Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.10.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.10.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The climate of the upper atmosphere, including the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere, is changing. As data records are much more limited than in the lower atmosphere and solar variability becomes increasingly dominant at higher altitudes, accurate trend detection and attribution is not straightforward. Nonetheless, observations reliably indicate that, on average, the mesosphere has been cooling, the density in the thermosphere has been decreasing, and ionospheric layers have been shifting down. These global mean changes can be largely attributed to the increase in CO<sub>2</sub> concentration, which causes cooling and thermal contraction in the middle and upper atmosphere. The decline in thermosphere density is particularly relevant from a practical viewpoint, as this reduces atmospheric drag and thereby increases orbital lifetimes and the build-up of space debris. Long-term changes in the ionosphere can have further practical implications and are not only driven by the increase in CO<sub>2</sub> concentration, but also by changes in the Earth’s magnetic field. The empirical models that are mostly used to inform applications in industry on the state of the upper atmosphere, as well as being widely used in science, do not yet properly account for long-term trends in the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere. This is problematic when long-term future projections are needed or models rely strongly on older data. This review provides an overview of the main evidence of long-term trends observed in the mesosphere, thermosphere and ionosphere, together with the latest insights on what causes these trends. It is hoped that this may serve as a starting point to include long-term trends in (semi-) empirical models to benefit all users of these models. We also offer some thoughts on how this could be approached.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50850,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Space Research","volume":"74 11","pages":"Pages 5991-6011"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Investigating the heliosphere, magnetosphere, atmosphere, and properties of cosmic rays during the 2018 Aug 25-26 strong geomagnetic storm” [Adv. Space Res. 73 (2024) 4363–4377/AISR-D-23-01163]","authors":"Sergey Starodubtsev , Ivan Kovalev , Petr Gololobov , Vladislav Grigoryev , Marina Kravtsova , Germogen Krymsky , Sergey Olemskoy , Valery Sdobnov","doi":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50850,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Space Research","volume":"74 10","pages":"Pages 5302-5303"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142539453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jose M. Montilla , Jan A. Siminski , Rafael Vazquez
{"title":"Single track orbit determination analysis for low Earth orbit with approximated J2 dynamics","authors":"Jose M. Montilla , Jan A. Siminski , Rafael Vazquez","doi":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.035","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the domain of Space Situational Awareness (SSA), the challenges related to orbit determination and catalog correlation are notably pronounced, exacerbated by data scarcity. This study introduces an initial orbit determination methodology that relies on data obtained from a single surveillance radar, with the need for fast algorithms within an operational context serving as the main design driver. The result is a linearized least-squares fitting procedure incorporating an analytically formulated approximation of the dynamics under the <span><math><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>J</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></math></span> perturbation, valid for short-term propagation. This algorithm utilizes all available observables, including range-rate, distinguishing it from other similar methods. A significant contribution of this paper is the enhancement of estimation quality by incorporating information about the object’s predicted orbital plane into the methodology, a method denoted as OPOD. The proposed methods are evaluated through a series of simulations against a classical range and angles fitting method (GTDS) to examine the effects of track length and measurement density on the quality of full state estimation, including the impact of using arcs that are too short. The OPOD methodology shows promising results throughout a wide range of scenarios.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50850,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Space Research","volume":"74 10","pages":"Pages 4968-4989"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142538909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THEMIS observations of compressional Pc5 pulsations in the dawn- and duskside magnetosphere","authors":"G.I. Korotova , D.G. Sibeck","doi":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.028","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present case and statistical studies of compressional Pc5 pulsations observed by the THEMIS spacecraft in the dawn- and duskside magnetosphere from 2007 to 2011. A case study provides evidence for compressional Pc5 pulsations in the dawnside magnetosphere following the arrival of particles injected by a substorm and the subsequent growth of the drift mirror instability on February 27, 2011. The statistical study shows that the Pc5 pulsations occur in a weak or moderately disturbed magnetosphere but rarely develop during strong magnetic activity (i. e., for Dst index below −25 nT). The most striking characteristic of the compressional Pc5 pulsations is their localization in latitude and longitude over many consecutive days. Dawnside Pc5 pulsations occur under quieter conditions, last longer, and attain greater amplitudes than duskside Pc5 pulsations. We attribute compressional pulsations in both sectors to the drift mirror instability, with a warmer, more energized, and gradient-curvature drifting population of substorm-injected ions on the duskside and a colder ExB drifting population of plasma sheet ions on the dawnside.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50850,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Space Research","volume":"74 11","pages":"Pages 6085-6096"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on “Analysis and diagnosis of abnormal SLR validation results for BeiDou-3 SECM-B MEO C225 and C226 satellite orbits”","authors":"Peter Steigenberger , Florian Dilssner","doi":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50850,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Space Research","volume":"74 10","pages":"Pages 4773-4774"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142538907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tailored accelerometer calibration by POD for thermospheric density retrieval with GRACE and GRACE-FO","authors":"Florian Wöske, Moritz Huckfeldt, Benny Rievers","doi":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The density of the upper atmosphere can be determined by orbit and accelerometer data from low Earth orbit satellites as insitu measurements along the orbit. One main challenge therein is the estimation of physical accelerometer calibration parameters, meaning that these parameters should not absorb other effects and model deficiencies in the Precise Orbit Determination (POD) process. The accelerometers of all geodetic satellites like GRACE and GRACE-FO are affected by time dependent bias and scale factors. Therefore a calibration of the data is indispensable.</div><div>A dynamic POD based physical accelerometer calibration is developed for the complete GRACE and GRACE-FO missions. We investigate different parametrization strategies and utilize different observation data, as the accurate inter-satellite ranging additionally to GPS orbit data. For the estimation parameters we distinguish between offset and scale, furthermore, cross-track and radial directions are significantly less sensitive than along-track and require a different evaluation. For the offset, constant and time dependent parameters are investigated. Furthermore, a continuous offset calibration over arc boundaries is implemented and tested. The sensitivity of the scale factor is lower, although, in contrast to the offset, it increases with higher total accelerations. This means that it needs to be estimated over longer time periods. We investigate periods between three hours and one month as well as results from Gravity Field Recovery (GFR). Monthly scale factors give valuable results, at least for x-axis and when the Solar activity is not very low. Nevertheless, we also estimate weighted constant scale factors from the monthly results and use these in a subsequent POD, giving more realistic offset results for most periods and cross-track and radial directions.</div><div>From the used background models in the POD, Earth’s gravitational model has a noticeable influence on the estimated calibration parameters, especially the scale factors. We utilized several different models. Results with monthly ITSG solutions are distinctly better than the ones with the time dependent GOCO06s model.</div><div>We show that the validation with usual metrics, like post-fit POD residuals, is not able to reflect the quality of the different estimated calibration parameters. For a quantitative validation we introduce an approach based on the modeled non-gravitational accelerations. Therefore, the uncertainty of the models is evaluated first. The influence of main error sources in the models is assessed and propagated to the results.</div><div>We compare our scale parameters to available references and the complete calibration to TU Delft’s latest results. Finally we show the effect of different calibration options on the retrieved density.</div><div>The estimated calibration parameters and non-gravitational accelerations for the whole GRACE and GRACE-FO missions are available on our data server","PeriodicalId":50850,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Space Research","volume":"74 10","pages":"Pages 4517-4542"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142538983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to the comment on ”Analysis and diagnosis of abnormal SLR validation results for BeiDou-3 SECM-B MEO C225 and C226 satellite orbits“","authors":"Fengyu Xia, Shanshi Zhou, Dezhong Chen, YueLing Cao, NaNa Jiang, Weijing Qu, Xiaogong Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.asr.2024.09.019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50850,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Space Research","volume":"74 10","pages":"Page 4775"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142538908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}