Slot Region 8,000 km Summary

The slot region orbit provided here is a circular orbit at the equator at 8,000 km altitude. It corresponds to the region between the inner and outer electron radiation belts where the radiation environment is usually much lower than other orbits. However, during a space weather event the electron flux can increase by up to 5 orders of magnitude on a timescale of a few minutes, and take many weeks to decay.