The Multisatellite Space Missions and Campaigns Longterm Planning

Ravil R. Nazirov, Victoria I. Prokhorenko
rnazirov@esoc1.iki.rssi.ru
Space Research Institute (IKI) Russian Academy of Sciences


The problems of the orbital situation analysis are discussed in this
paper as a foundation of the multisatellite missions and campaigns.
longterm planning.
The INTERBALL mission and its participation in the IACG Campaign 1
are presented as examples (see World Wide Web home pages:
http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/amisan.htm,
http://www.iki.rssi.ru/vprokhor/camp.htm)
The Tools being developed and the expiriance of its usage for
solving the problems mentioned above can be used during planning
of the other Space Missions and Campaign.
The  Inter-Agency  Consultative  Group  (IACG) in the Campaign 1 on
Magnetotail  Energy  Flow  and  Non-linear Dynamics (coordinated by
James Green) has joined  4 missions: GEOTAIL (NASA, ISAS Japan),
INTERBALL TAIL (IKI - RKA), IMP8 (NASA), WIND (NASA).
The comprehensive investigations include wide net of  the
Ground Based Stations.
Many participances take part in the missions planning and realization.
The Internet (via FTP and  World  Wide  Web)  permit  to  provide  the
necessary data exchange.