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IMAGE­

(Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, Explorer 78)
(satellite mission to study the magnetosphere)

NASA's IMAGE (for Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration) MIDEX spacecraft imaged the Earth's magnetosphere and its response to solar wind, from its 2000 launch until contact was lost in 2005. Instruments:

Contact with the spacecraft was made for a while in 2018, but lost again.

(spacecraft,magnetism,Earth,NASA,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAGE_(spacecraft)
http://grad.space.swri.edu/image/
https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://solarviews.com/eng/image.htm
https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/publication/document/sr_rev_2001/sr_rev_prop_2001.pdf
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=63e0c4f38117b748a78e840981606867e699a12c
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/a-detailed-timeline-of-the-image-mission-recovery
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-image-confirmed
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