1997 · United States Air Force
ACE
successDelta 7920-8 | ACE
The objective of the ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) is to collect observations of particles of solar, interplanetary, interstellar, and galactic origins, spanning the energy range from that of keV.solar wind ions to galactic cosmic ray nuclei up to 600 MeV/nucleon.
Overview
- Date / time
- August 25, 1997 at 02:39 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- Mission
- ACE
- Mission type
- Astrophysics
- Orbit achieved
- Heliocentric L1