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Appendix B: Instrumentation, Data Systems, and Technology
Pages 332-341

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From page 332...
... Recent solar and space physics missions have typically flown slightly modified versions of existing instrumentation, due to limited instrument development opportunities and to the risk-averse programmatic environment. Conversely, incremental development of selected sensors has sometimes been carried out during implementation, thus increasing risk, cost, and schedule vulnerability.
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From page 333...
... From low Earth orbit, a 10-Wm2 system is sufficient to provide spatial profiles at 10-km altitude resolution. Technology development is necessary to bring such a system to spaceflight readiness, whether on the International Space Station (ISS)
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From page 334...
... High-Angular-Resolution Energetic Neutral Atom Imaging (SWMI and SHP) Key magnetospheric processes associated with solar wind driving and ionospheric coupling occur from global scales down to those of individual flux tubes, requiring both effective remote sensing and detailed in situ measurements.
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From page 335...
... This instrumentation requires basic system development, followed by staged boosting of the system's TRL. DATA SYSTEMS Data from NASA's heliophysics missions and many ground-based observatories can be obtained currently online, either directly from individual websites or through central archives such as the Solar Data Analysis Center, the Space Physics Data Facility, or the National Space Science Data Center.
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From page 336...
... To achieve these goals efficiently, the national agencies will need to develop a common approach for funding data facilities, archives, modeling centers, and VxOs and coordinate the development of data systems infrastructure, including the development of data systems software, data analysis tools, and training for personnel. Opportunities in New Data Systems Community Input to and Control of the Integrated Data Environment A number of virtual observatory and other data identification and access tools have appeared or are under development.
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From page 337...
... Promoting the development of semantic technology would enable the emerging data access capability in heliophysics to share data and knowledge with other fields. A National Approach to Data Policies The heliophysics data policies of the funding agencies differ or are in some cases lacking.
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From page 338...
... Meeting the survey's science goals and maintaining leadership in heliophysics requires improved spacecraft technologies, as well as appropriate new sensors and data analysis tools. The most significant advances in heliophysics over the next decade and beyond are most likely to derive from new observational techniques in new locations.
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From page 339...
... Vantage points above Earth's poles, at sub-L1 locations, and at high ecliptic latitudes have unique properties that enable important observations. Six community white papers advocated science enabled by this technology, and previous strategic studies have advocated solar sails.
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From page 340...
... It would be prudent to start development of space and ground-station communications for a swarm of small, low-power, Earth-orbiting satellites and for distant platforms at L5, a solar polar orbiter at high ecliptic latitude, or ultimately an interstellar probe. Spacecraft Power In situ study of the outer heliosphere requires operations past the orbit of Jupiter.
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From page 341...
... Spectrum Frequency allocation policies for satellites and the congestion of current bands available for space research favor high-profile missions. This can disadvantage typically smaller heliophysics science missions and those that make use of secondary launch opportunities.
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  • solar wind

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  • virtual observatories
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