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space environment
Term Source:
JP 3-59
(Meteorological and Oceanographic Operations)
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1.) The environment corresponding to the space domain, where electromagnetic radiation, charged particles, and electric and magnetic fields are the dominant physical influences, and that encompasses the earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere, interplanetary space, and the solar atmosphere.
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Term Classification: operations
Source:
Department of Defence, Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Term sourced from JP 3-59: Meteorological and Oceanographic Operations, updated December 2012
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