A comprehensive review of Electric Solar Wind Sail concept and its applications

M Bassetto, L Niccolai, AA Quarta, G Mengali - Progress in Aerospace …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Electric Solar Wind Sail (E-sail) is an innovative propellantless propulsion
system conceived by Pekka Janhunen in 2004 for use in interplanetary space. An E-sail …

International reference ionosphere 2007: Improvements and new parameters

D Bilitza, BW Reinisch - Advances in space research, 2008 - Elsevier
The International Reference Ionosphere (IRI), a joint project of URSI and COSPAR, is the de
facto international standard for the climatological specification of ionospheric parameters …

A novel neural network model of Earth's topside ionosphere

A Smirnov, Y Shprits, F Prol, H Lühr, M Berrendorf… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
The Earth's ionosphere affects the propagation of signals from the Global Navigation
Satellite Systems (GNSS). Due to the non-uniform coverage of available observations and …

Development of a new three‐dimensional mathematical ionosphere model at European Space Agency/European Space Operations Centre

J Feltens - Space Weather, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
For several years a clear trend from the application of classical so‐called “single layer”
models to attempts to model the ionosphere in accordance to its real three‐dimensional …

An analysis of the scale heights in the lower topside ionosphere based on the Arecibo incoherent scatter radar measurements

L Liu, H Le, W Wan, MP Sulzer, J Lei… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We statistically analyze the ionospheric scale heights in the lower topside ionosphere based
on the electron density (Ne) and temperature profiles observed from the incoherent scatter …

Application of neural networks to South African GPS TEC modelling

JB Habarulema, LA McKinnell, PJ Cilliers… - Advances in Space …, 2009 - Elsevier
The propagation of radio signals in the Earth's atmosphere is dominantly affected by the
ionosphere due to its dispersive nature. Global Positioning System (GPS) data provides …

Global and regional trends in ionospheric total electron content

JL Lean, JT Emmert, JM Picone… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A statistically significant positive trend of 0.6±0.3 total electron content unit (TECU; 1 TECU=
1016 el m− 2) per decade is detected in the 15 year record of daily averaged global total …

Ionospheric and plasmaspheric electron contents from space-time collocated digisonde, COSMIC, and GPS observations and model assessments

SK Panda, H Haralambous, M Moses, JRKK Dabbakuti… - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
An accurate representation of bottomside, topside ionosphere, and plasmasphere electron
content remains as one of the important issues for the development of realistic ionosphere …

Evaluation of the IRI-2007 model options for the topside electron density

D Bilitza - Advances in space research, 2009 - Elsevier
The International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) 2007 provides two new options for the topside
electron density profile:(a) a correction of the IRI-2001 model, and (b) the NeQuick topside …

On the low-latitude NeQuick topside ionosphere mismodelling: The role of parameters H0, g, and r

M Pezzopane, A Pignalberi, B Nava - Advances in Space Research, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper deals with the well-known mismodelling characterizing the NeQuick topside
ionosphere at low latitudes, ie, the fact that the model keeps the two electron density humps …