TY - T1 - Daedalus : a low-flying spacecraft for in situ exploration of the lower thermosphere-ionosphere SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/315023 T3 - A1 - Sarris, Theodoros E.; Talaat, Elsayed R.; Palmroth, Minna; Dandouras, Iannis; Armandillo, Errico; Kervalishvili, Guram; Buchert, Stephan; Tourgaidis, Stylianos; Malaspina, David M.; Jaynes, Allison N.; Paschalidis, Nikolaos; Sample, John; Halekas, Jasper; Doornbos, Eelco; Lappas, Vaios; Jorgensen, Therese Moretto; Stolle, Claudia; Clilverd, Mark; Wu, Qian; Sandberg, Ingmar; Pirnaris, Panagiotis; Aikio, Anita A2 - PB - Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - The Daedalus mission has been proposed to the European Space Agency (ESA) in response to the call for ideas for the Earth Observation program's 10th Earth Explorer. It was selected in 2018 as one of three candidates for a phase-0 feasibility study. The goal of the mission is to quantify the key electrodynamic processes that determine the structure and composition of the upper atmosphere, the gateway between the Earth's atmosphere and space. An innovative preliminary mission design allows Daedalu... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - FIELD-ALIGNED CURRENTS; UPPER-ATMOSPHERE; SOLAR-WIND; MHD SIMULATION; POLAR-CAP; E REGION; DENSITY PERTURBATIONS; SATELLITE; MODEL; MISSION; 114 Physical sciences N1 - PP - ER -