Join us for the 2010 Air Force Orbital Resources Ionosphere
(ORION) Conference
New Directions For Research and Collaboration
The Air Force ORION Conference is the first annual meeting dedicated to an open exchange between scientists and Air Force engineers to address solar effects on our use of space and the distortion of signals from ionospheric disruption. The Conference features presentations and discussions from Air Force engineers, as well as researchers from laboratories and universities across the country concerning vital technological issues and leading edge research on our understanding and modeling of solar effects. The desire is to use the Conference forum to both find and refine solutions to engineering concerns and provide new direction for research and collaboration. Focusing on space weather and ionosphere effects that compromise vital Air Force technology introduces Air Force engineers to leading space weather researchers in Air Force research and across the United States and, through discovery and collaboration, can lead to an expansion of Air Force Research Laboratory research capabilities.
The ORION Conference - The Opportunity for an Increased Understanding
Satellites for communication, global positioning and long range sensing, our use of reflected waves from the ionosphere, and man’s eternal need to explore the universe about him brings with it the down-to-earth need to understand what was once thought to be a simple, hard vacuum.
The earth is continually bathed in a flux of high energy particles—protons, electrons, ions, and strong electromagnetic radiation from the sun. Ever varying in evolving cycles, the sun generates an incredible 4x1020 Megawatts of power.
Quite beyond light and the warmth that makes life possible, the complex interaction between this vast and endless river of particles and radiation and our earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field dominates much of what we now take for granted in our modern lives.
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