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Satellite Programme: Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager
Programme details
Programme description
Single-satellite programme, for solar observation.
USA programme: managed by NASA/GSFC through the Space Science Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley.
The satellite is spin-stabilised.
The design lifetime is 2 years.
The orbit is drifting, low-inclination.
See details at
http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/rhessi2
.
Data circulation
Onboard stored and real-time data are downlinked to several stations of the NASA network and associated. The mission is operated by the Space Science Laboratory of the University of California.
The data are delivered to the Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC) at GSFC and to the HESSI Experimental Data Center (HEDC) at Zürich.
Agencies
NASA
Programme lifetime
2002 - 2018
Associated satellites and instruments
Note: red tag => no longer operational , green tag => operational , blue tag => planned
Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager
RHESSI
(2002-2018)
RHESSI