Company Name | Image |
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Website | pluto.space.swri.edu/IMAGE/ |
Snippet | IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) is a NASA Medium Explorers mission that studied the global response of the Earth's magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind. It was believed lost but as of August 2018 might be recoverable. It was launched 25 March 2000 by a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg AFB on a two-year mission. Almost six years later, it unexpectedly ceased operations in December 2005 during its extended mission and was declared lost.[10] The spacecraft was part of NASA's Sun-Earth Connections Program, and during its run had over 400 research articles published in peer-reviewed journals using its data.[11] It had special cameras that provided various breakthroughs in understanding the dynamics of plasma around the Earth. The Principal Investigator was Jim Burch of the Southwest Research Institute. |
EUV | Extreme Ultraviolet Imager |
FUV | Far Ultraviolet Imager |
RPI | Radio Plasma Imager |
HENA | High-Energy Neutral Atom Imager |
LENA | Low-Energy Neutral Atom Imager |
MENA | Medium-Energy Neutral Atom Imager |
RAAN | 192.74° |
Epoch | 25 March 2000, 16:30:34 UTC[8][9] |
Names | Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration Explorer 78 |
Power | 286 watts[1] (GaAs solar arrays, Super NiCd batteries) |
Apogee | 46,004 km (28,586 mi) |
Period | 856 minutes |
Regime | Polar |
Rocket | Delta II 7326-9.5 #277[4] |
Perigee | 1,000 km (621 mi) |
Website | pluto.space.swri.edu/IMAGE/ |
Disposal | Contact lost |
Operator | NASA / Goddard Applied Physics Laboratory |
COSPAR ID | 2000-017A |
Contractor | Boeing Launch Services |
Dimensions | Bus: 2.25 × 1.52 m (7.4 × 5.0 ft)[1] Deployed: 504 × 22 m (1,652 × 71 ft)[1] |
SATCAT no. | 26113 |
Inclination | 90.01° |
Instruments | InstrumentsRPIRadio Plasma ImagerLENALow-Energy Neutral Atom ImagerMENAMedium-Energy Neutral Atom ImagerHENAHigh-Energy Neutral Atom ImagerFUVFar Ultraviolet ImagerEUVExtreme Ultraviolet Imager |
Launch date | 25 March 2000, 20:34:43.929 (2000-03-25UTC20:34:43) UTC[3] |
Launch mass | 494 kg (1,089 lb)[1] |
Launch site | Vandenberg SLC-2W |
Eccentricity | 0.75308 |
Last contact | 18 December 2005, 07:39 (2005-12-18UTC07:40) UTC[5] |
Manufacturer | Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Southwest Research Institute |
Mission type | Magnetospheric physics |
Payload mass | 210 kg (463 lb)[2]:17 |
Recovered by | Scott Tilley[6] |
Recovery date | 20 January 2018[7] |
Semi-major axis | 29,880 km (18,567 mi) |
Mission duration | Planned: 2 years[1] Final: 5 years, 8 months, 22 days |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Argument of perigee | 319.86° |
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