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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202124;background:white">We invite abstracts for the AGU 2024 Fall Meeting session
<b>SA022 - The Low-Earth Orbit Environment: space weather impacts, orbital debris populations, and challenges to space operations</b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202124;background:white">The Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) environment from about 200 to 2000 km above sea level spans the ionosphere-thermosphere-mesosphere (ITM) system which exhibits high variability due
to constantly changing inputs from the Sun, the magnetosphere, and the lower atmosphere. The physics of this region is extremely challenging, as interconnected but distinct plasma and neutral dynamics arises from coupling of different systems across multiple
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202124;background:white">LEO has recently become the focus of intense research as space traffic coordination is increasingly burdened by the proliferation of “mega-constellations” of satellites, the
approach of solar maximum, and the relentless increase of orbital debris in the region.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202124;background:white">We invite abstracts discussing recent advances and prevailing gaps in our understanding of the coupled Sun-magnetosphere-ITM system, new measurement systems and missions, the
physics of satellite drag, quantifying and characterizing orbital debris populations, and operational considerations such as collision prediction and mitigation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202124;background:white">Please submit your abstracts by July 31st at 23:59 EDT through the AGU Fall Meeting abstract portal at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202124;background:white">Thanks!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#202124;background:white">Tom Berger, Tuija Pulkkinen, Aaron Ridley, Jeff Thayer, Sarah Luettgen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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