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2016 · Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

ERG (Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace)

successEpsilon | ERG (ARASE)

The ERG  (Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace) project is a mission to study the Van Allen belts. The task is to elucidate how highly charged electrons are born while they generate and vanish repeatedly along with space storms caused by the disturbance of solar wind, influenced by space storms, and how space storms are developed.

Overview

Date / time
December 20, 2016 at 11:00 AM UTC
Outcome
success
Launch site
Mu Center
Mission
ERG (Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace)
Mission type
Earth Science
Orbit achieved
Elliptical Orbit
Launch vehicle
Epsilon →
Launch provider
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency →

Payloads deployed · 1

ARASE (ERG)
HEO