Overview
- Editors:
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Rickard Lundin
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Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
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Gerhard Haerendel
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Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching bei München, Germany
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Sven Grahn
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Swedish Space Corporation, Stockholm, Sweden
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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- R. Lundin, G. Haerendel, S. Grahn
Pages 1-15
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- J. S. Murphree, R. A. King, T. Payne, K. Smith, D. Reid, J. Adema et al.
Pages 17-42
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- G. Paschmann, M. Boehm, H. Höfner, R. Frenzel, P. Parigger, F. Melzner et al.
Pages 43-59
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- Lawrence Zanetti, Thomas Potemra, Robert Erlandson, Peter Bythrow, Brian Anderson, Anthony Lui et al.
Pages 61-78
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- G. T. Marklund, L. G. Blomberg, P.-A. Lindqvist, C.-G. Fälthammar, G. Haerendel, F. S. Mozer et al.
Pages 79-104
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- M. Boehm, G. Paschmann, J. Clemmons, H. Höfner, R. Frenzel, M. Ertl et al.
Pages 105-136
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- B. A. Whalen, D. J. Knudsen, A. W. Yau, A. M. Pilon, T. A. Cameron, J. F. Sebesta et al.
Pages 137-157
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- L. Eliasson, O. Norberg, R. Lundin, K. Lundin, S. Olsen, H. Borg et al.
Pages 159-172
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- B. Holback, S.-E. Jansson, L. Åhlén, G. Lundgren, L. Lyngdal, S. Powell et al.
Pages 173-188
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- P.-A. Lindqvist, G. T. Marklund, L. G. Blomberg
Pages 189-198
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Back Matter
Pages 199-206
About this book
Freja is a joint Swedish and German satellite, launched on October 6, 1992 and orbiting at 600--1750 km, covering the lower part of the auroral acceleration region. It has been designed to provide high-resolution measurements (both temporal and spatial) of auroral plasma characteristics. The high telemetry rate, together with the 15 Mbyte distributed on-board memories allow Freja to resolve meso and micro-scale phenomena in the 100 m range for particles and 1--10 m range for electric and magnetic fields. The UV imager resolves auroral structures of 1 km size at a time resolution of one image every 6 s. The novel plasma instruments are orders of magnitude better than any that have gone before.
The Freja Mission is about the scientific objectives, instruments and platform itself. Detailed descriptions are given of the instrumentation and the first data acquired. It is one of the very few books to contain such material in a single volume, relating the instruments' design with their in-flight characteristics.
For space engineers and other researchers interested in space science.
Editors and Affiliations
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Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
Rickard Lundin
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Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching bei München, Germany
Gerhard Haerendel
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Swedish Space Corporation, Stockholm, Sweden
Sven Grahn
