Репост из: 8CueBall 🎱
🔹"the largest unmanned self-supporting structure ever put into orbit whose antennae measure the length of a football field"
"consisted of four experiment suites designed to increase knowledge of conditions in the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and to test advanced spacecraft control techniques"
“MEO overlaps the Van Allen Radiation Belts, which are regions of charged particles trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field,” said Dr. Robert Johnston, the team’s lead science investigator.
“At their very high speeds, these particles pose a natural radiation hazard and their tendency to disturb and degrade spacecraft electronics means the region is challenging for spacecraft to use.”
The first of DSX’s four experiment suites was known as the Wave Particle Interaction Experiment, which was designed to increase our understandingof the interaction between Very-Low Frequency (VLF) ..
https://www.defenseworld.net/news/30062/USAF_Research_Lab_Completes_300_experiments_on_DSX__Largest_Satellite_Ever_Put_into_Orbit#.YPlnPehyuuU
"consisted of four experiment suites designed to increase knowledge of conditions in the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) and to test advanced spacecraft control techniques"
“MEO overlaps the Van Allen Radiation Belts, which are regions of charged particles trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field,” said Dr. Robert Johnston, the team’s lead science investigator.
“At their very high speeds, these particles pose a natural radiation hazard and their tendency to disturb and degrade spacecraft electronics means the region is challenging for spacecraft to use.”
The first of DSX’s four experiment suites was known as the Wave Particle Interaction Experiment, which was designed to increase our understandingof the interaction between Very-Low Frequency (VLF) ..
https://www.defenseworld.net/news/30062/USAF_Research_Lab_Completes_300_experiments_on_DSX__Largest_Satellite_Ever_Put_into_Orbit#.YPlnPehyuuU