{"688046":{"#nid":"688046","#data":{"type":"event","title":"FulminoSat: A CubeSat Constellation to Study the Ionosphere with Multi-Modal Lightning Signals","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0022FulminoSat: A CubeSat Constellation to Study the Ionosphere with Multi-Modal Lightning Signals\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/people\/michael-peterson\u0022\u003EMichael Peterson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EDirector, Severe Storms Research Center\u003Cbr\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/535172\u0022\u003ERegister here (free)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E The modern interconnected world increasingly relies on technologies that are impacted by space weather. Common modes of radio communications are susceptible to disruption from all types of solar storms that perturb the ionospheric plasma. Disturbances impact signal propagation or create communications blackout conditions in critical high-latitude regions. Our ability to monitor these disturbances is limited to land via sensor density, to serendipitous orbital alignments, or to the source of the ionospheric disturbance \u2013 X-rays, energetic electrons, or energetic protons \u2013 in the case of operational modeling. Improvements to the spatial and temporal sampling of ionospheric disturbances regardless of radiation source is needed to provide improved situational awareness of disturbances, to quantify risk and impacts to advanced technologies, and to understand basic ionospheric physics questions. We are developing the FulminoSat constellation that will use distributed multi-modal space-based sensing of signals of opportunity (lightning) to complement current sensing systems to meet these needs.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIEEE Seminar: Michael Peterson, GTRI\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"IEEE Seminar: Michael Peterson, GTRI"}],"uid":"35575","created_gmt":"2026-02-05 16:51:17","changed_gmt":"2026-02-05 16:55:07","author":"adavidson38","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2026-02-11T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2026-02-11T17:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2026-02-11T17:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2026-02-11 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2026-02-11 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2026-02-11 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"GTRI Conference Center Auditorium, 250 14th St NW, Atlanta, Georgia, 30318","extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/events.vtools.ieee.org\/m\/535172","title":"Register here (free)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"660370","name":"Space"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"189814","name":"go-researchevents"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ryan.freeman@gtri.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eryan.freeman@gtri.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}