Nanotechnology Challenges for Future Space Weather Forecasting Networks

摘要

This chapter provides an overview of space weather and articulates the need for an affordable space weather forecasting network as communication and navigation become increasingly reliant on space-based systems, Space weather forecasting efforts face a number of technological challenges to provide global specification of the near-Earth and solar space environment. Nanotechnology is seen to play a pivotal role in technically enabling such an effort and in making it affordable. Concepts of future nano-structured energetic particle sensors are presented.