Advanced Composition Explorer
(ACE, Explorer 71)
(satellite collecting solar wind and cosmic rays)
Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE)
is a NASA Medium-class Explorer Program (MIDEX) satellite collecting particle data from
solar wind and cosmic rays.
It was launched in 1997 targeted for
a 5 year mission but with sufficient fuel to stay in orbit until 2024
and is still in operation.
It is in a Lissajous orbit of the L1 Lagrangian point
of the Earth and Sun.
Instruments:
- CRIS ("Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer").
- RTSW ("ACE Real Time Solar Wind").
- ULEIS ("Ultra-low Energy Isotope Spectrometer").
- SEPICA ("Solar Energetic Particle Ionic Charge Analyzer").
- SWIMS ("Solar Wind Ion Mass Spectrometer").
- SWICS ("Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer").
- SIS ("Solar Isotope Spectrometer").
- SWEPAM ("Solar Wind Electron, Proton and Alpha Monitor").
- EPAM ("Electron, Proton, and Alpha-particle Monitor").
- MAG ("Magnetometer").
(spacecraft,particles,solar,NASA,L1,solar wind,cosmic rays)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Composition_Explorer
http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/
http://science.nasa.gov/missions/ace/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997ICRC....1..105G/abstract
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ace-real-time-solar-wind
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1997-045A
Referenced by pages:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Lagrangian point
solar physics
SWFO-L1
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