National Space Weather Panel
- Air Force Research Laboratory
- David Cooke, James Metcalf, Lt. Col. David Bell, Joel Mozer, PhD
- 17 pages
- For Official Use Only
- June 6, 2009
The natural space environment affects military operations because warfighters depend on space-based assets to execute combat missions
- Single event upsets (SEUs) due to high energy particles
- Satellite position errors due to changes in atmospheric density
- Comm/nav capability degraded or lost because of ionospheric anomalies
- Radar false target identification due to ionospheric anomalies
- Long-term degradation of spacecraft due to environment
- Optical & RF anomalies due to solar emission
- Discrimination between natural & man-made effects on spacecraft
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