Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System
The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System was a U.S. Air Force research and technology mission built to observe equatorial ionospheric irregularities and improve forecasts of radio scintillation that can disrupt communication and navigation signals. Its instrument suite included NASA's Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigation, which measured how charged and neutral particles interact in the low-latitude ionosphere.
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- Aliases
- C/NOFSCNOFSCommunications/Navigation Outage Forecasting System2008-017A
- Name
- Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System
- Slug
- communication-navigation-outage-forecasting-system
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System was a U.S. Air Force research and technology mission built to observe equatorial ionospheric irregularities and improve forecasts of radio scintillation that can disrupt communication and navigation signals. Its instrument suite included NASA's Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigation, which measured how charged and neutral particles interact in the low-latitude ionosphere.
- End Date
- 2015-11-28
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- C/NOFS returned more than seven years of ionospheric measurements. Its final thirteen months sampled unusually low orbital altitudes, revealing density structure and dynamics important to radio propagation, atmospheric drag, trajectory prediction, and reentry modeling. The spacecraft completed a planned atmospheric reentry on November 28, 2015.
- Start Date
- 2008-04-16
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- Creation Time
- July 18, 2026 at 16:03:18 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 18, 2026 at 16:03:18 UTC
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