Applications and Potentials of Intelligent Swarms for magnetospheric studies

Earth's magnetosphere is vital for today's technologically dependent society. To date, numerous design studies have been conducted and over a dozen science missions have flown to study the magnetosphere. However, a majority of these solutions relied on large monolithic satellites, which limited the spatial resolution of these investigations,...

End-of-life of satellite swarms

Satellite swarms offer a high-capability mission architecture with a variety of potential applications in space exploration and discovery. Swarm-based architectures —which comprise multiple agents operating collectively as a distributed system— have been proposed for Earth observation, astronomy, planetary exploration, and heliophysics. Some of...

APIS: Applications and Potentials of Intelligent Swarms for magnetospheric studies

Earth's magnetosphere is vital for today's technologically dependent society. The energy transferred from the solar wind to the magnetosphere triggers electromagnetic storms on Earth, knocking out power grids and infrastructure - e.g., communication and navigation systems. Despite occurring on our astrophysical doorstep, numerous physical...