Weather
Space Environment
Radiation In Space
The 3 C's
Who's Is It?
100
The combined effect of scattering and absorption
What is Attenuation
100
Because there are about a million atoms and ions in a cubic centimeter at the altitude of space, it is not a complete vacuum. Instead we call it a "_____ _____"
What is hard vacuum
100
This type of radiation is sometimes referred to as light or radiant energy
What is Electro Magnetic radiation
100
Name the 3 C's of the Space Environment
What is Contested, Congested, and Competitive
100
These are two commercial vendors which provide Imagery/ISR in the United States
What is Skybox, DigitalGlobe
200
This type of precipitation causes the most attenuation of radio waves, and this is how it does it at frequencies above 100MHz
What is rain; scattering
200
Energy that is captured by material exposed to the solar energy, leading to a temperature increase within the spacecraft
What is Absorbed energy
200
These two types of orbits are particularly vulnerable to the directed motion of charged particles that occurs during a geomagnetic storm, as well as their positions within the Van Allen Radiation Belts
What is Geosynchronous orbit, semi-synchronous orbit
200
This is the newest asset in Space Situational Awareness, presenting a significant improvement in space object surveillance, for better collision avoidance and detecting threats.
What is Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP)
200
Two countries provide augmentation to GPS for improved signal reception: Japan's ______ and India's ______.
What is QZSS, IRNSS/GAGAN
300
These are the two types of launch weather constraints in launch operations
What is Launch agency and Range Safety
300
This is one of the simplest ways to mitigate the extreme temperature differential in space
What is Rotating the satellite, much like a rotisserie chicken on a spit
300
These latitudes are where scintillation occurrence and distribution are the strongest, especially at night.
What is high geomagnetic latitudes (the auroral and polar regions)
300
Defensive Counterspace Operations include ______, ______, and ______.
What is Deterrence, Defense, and Recovery
300
This is the German-developed single satellite constellation that uses X-band phased array SAR to provide high-quality topographical information for scientific and commercial applications
What is TerraSAR-X
400
These are the 3 layers of the Solar Atmosphere
What is Photosphere, Chromosphere, and Corona
400
When radiation from the sun strikes a spacecraft, the energy is either ______, ______, or ______.
What is reflected, absorbed, or transmitted
400
Low to Medium particle streams may arrive at the Earth about two to three days after a flare. Such particle streams can also occur at any time due to other non-flare solar activity. Typical problems related to this include: ______, ______, ______, ______, and ______.
What is spacecraft electrical charging, drag on LEO satellites, radar interference, space tracking errors, and radio wave propagation anomalies.
400
These are the 3 types of Electromagnetic Pulses, and this is of the highest concern in regards to electronic systems in space: ______, ______, ______; ______
What is High-altitude burst (HEMP), air burst, and surface burst; High-altitude burst (HEMP)
400
Meaning "wind and cloud", this is the name given to the Chinese civil meteorological observation satellites
What is Fengyun series
500
This occurs when x-ray radiation emiteed during a solar flare energizes the ionosphere, increasing the radio wave absorption in the High Frequency band of the EM spectrum used by surface to surface radio operators.
What is Shortwave Fade
500
Name the 3 ways spacecrafts are designed to mitigate the effect of solar heat in space
What is Multi-layer insulation blankets, reflective paint/coatings to radiate heat away, using the right materials on the outside of the spacecraft to meet 85% or more of the thermal control demands.
500
Warnings of environmental conditions conducive to spacecraft charging allow operators to ______, ______, ______, or ______.
What is reschedule vehicle commanding, reduce onboard activity, delay satellite launches and deployments, or reorient a spacecraft to protect it from particle bombardment.
500
Name the 7 examples of non-kinetic threats as listed in the workbook: ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, ______, and ______.
What is laser weapons, radio frequency weapons, uplink jamming, downlink jamming, particle beam weapons, cyberspace weapons, and Electromagnetic pulse
500
Russian launch site originally designed and built as an operational missile launch and test site, has a total orbital launch record of 1,170.
What is Baikonur Cosmodrome
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