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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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