1992 · United States Air Force
Geotail & DUVE
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The Geotail mission measures global energy flow and transformation in the magnetotail to increase understanding of fundamental magnetospheric processes. The objective of tthe DUVE experiment is to perform sensitive spectroscopy of diffuse emissions from the interstellar medium to increase the understanding of the dynamics and evolution of the interstellar medium and the Galaxy.
Overview
- Date / time
- July 24, 1992 at 02:26 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- Mission
- Geotail & DUVE
- Mission type
- Planetary Science
- Orbit achieved
- Elliptical Orbit