The Space Environment Testbeds (SET) Project performs flight and data investigations to address the Living With A Star (LWS) Program goal of understanding how the Sun/Earth interactions affect humanity. It is the part of the LWS program of Science Missions and Targeted Research and Technology (TR&T ) ground-based investigations that respond to the following question:
- How and why does the Sun vary?
- How do the Earth and planets respond?
- What are the affects on humanity?
SET uses existing data and new data from low-cost SET missions to acheive the following:
- Define the mechanisms for induced space environment and effects
- Reduce uncertainties in the definitions of the induced environment and effects on spacecraft and their payloads
- Improve design and operations guidelines and test protocols so that spacecraft anomalies and failures due to environmental effects during operations are reduced.
Living With A Star's (LWS) program is a part of the Heliophysics Division...more
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