The Lagrange Communication and Advanced Realtime Space-weather (LCARS) Array
Whitepaper #266 in the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033. Main topics: space weather applications; basic research. Additional topics: space weather research/applications/operations pipeline; solar physics; space-based missions/projects; […]
by Jerry Manweiler, J. Douglas Patterson, Stephen Ledvina, Andrew Gerrard, Louis Lanzerotti, Matthew Cooper, and Thomas Chen
Published onJul 31, 2023
The Lagrange Communication and Advanced Realtime Space-weather (LCARS) Array
We explore the need and utility of the development of an array of spacecraft deployed at the Earth-Sun Lagrange points to enable three-dimensional (3D) space weather monitoring. We show that the utilization of all five Lagrange points is possible if each of the spacecraft are instrumented with modern high-bandwidth terahertz communication systems. We designate this network as the SOL-Network
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