Planetary Science
ARTEMIS P1 (THEMIS B)
OperationalPlanetary ScienceLunar
Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission began in February 2007 as a constellation of five NASA satellites to study energy releases from Earth's magnetosphere known as substorms, magnetic phenomena that intensify auroras near Earth's poles. The name of the mission is an acronym alluding to the Titan Themis.
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Launch
- Launch date
- February 17, 2007 at 11:01 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta II 7925-10C →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- THEMIS
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Lunar
- Reference body
- Lunar
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2007-004B
- NORAD catalog №
- 30581
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.631 m²
- Status
- Operational