AMPTE
(Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers)
(three spacecraft experimenting on Earth magnetosphere)
AMPTE (for Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers)
was a NASA mission with three spacecraft launched together in 1984:
- AMPTE-IRM "AMPTE-Ion Release Module".
- AMPTE-CCE "AMPTE-Charge Composition Explorer".
- AMPTE-UKS "AMPTE-United Kingdom Satellite".
The AMPTE-IRM released ions a number of times, with the three
spacecraft performing measurements each time, trying to discover
how Earth's magnetic field (magnetosphere) must be
affecting solar-wind particles.
One of the ion releases was termed an artificial comet, intended
to simulate some of the effects of a comet.
Two of the spacecraft also made measurements of a solar storm
in September 1984.
(space,Earth,magnetosphere,NASA)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPTE-IRM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPTE-CCE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPTE-UKS
https://space.umd.edu/projects/ampte/ampte.html
http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/AMPTE/
https://secwww.jhuapl.edu/techdigest/Content/techdigest/pdf/V05-N04/05-04-McCloskey.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993SSRv...64..141B/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1985GeoRL..12..305W/abstract
Referenced by page:
Galileo Observatory
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