[DumbNelmcrece]

NASA "Radiation Belt Storm Probes" to launch August 23.

http://rbsp.jhuapl.edu/

[Suvaxal]

Looking forward to these results. Can we expect data this year?

[DumbNelmcrece]

They have it installed in the rocket nosecone already.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=3&theater

> Can we expect data this year?

Um. "RBSP will make all its scientific data products quickly and publicly available" ... "The RBSP Science Gateway (http://athena.jhuapl.edu) is the RBSP project website that provides public access to RBSP Science and ancillary data. The website provides registered users with access to summary plots, planning tools, links to the SOC websites, a series of discussion forums and a publication list. The site also serves as the primary method of accessing plots from the RBSP Space Weather data".

Not sure, this year may be too soon. I think of this as like Themis. Themis have us the time dependent magnetic field of the Earth and how it varies with sunspots. RBSP will do the same with radiation density.



Snapshot from animation.



Orbit through the radiation belts.