C/NOFS
Sign in to savethumb|Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite C/NOFS, or Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System was a USAF satellite developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate to investigate and forecast scintillations in the Earth's ionosphere. It was launched by an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegasus-XL launch vehicle at 17:02:48 UTC on 16 April 2008 and decayed on 28 November 2015.
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- Instance of
- military satellite
- Image
- 606338main CNOFS-orig full.jpg
- Significant event
- atmospheric entry
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2008-04-16
- space launch vehicle
- Pegasus
- time of object orbit decay
- 2015-11-28
- Commons category
- CNOFS
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Scientific instruments on board
- Experiments
- C/NOFS Occultation Receiver for Ionospheric Sensing and Specification (CORISS)
- Coherent Electromagnetic Radio Tomography (CERTO)
- Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigation (CINDI)
- Planar Langmuir Probe (PLP)
- Vector Electric Field Instrument (VEFI)
- Scientific data
- Timeline
- C/NOFS related publications
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite C/NOFS, or Communications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System was a USAF satellite developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate to investigate and forecast scintillations in the Earth's ionosphere. It was launched by an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegasus-XL launch vehicle at 17:02:48 UTC on 16 April 2008 and decayed on 28 November 2015.
The satellite, which was operated by the Space Test Program (STP), allowed the U.S. military to predict the effects of ionospheric activity on signals from communication and navigation satellites, outages of which could potentially cause problems in battlefield situations.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “C/NOFS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.