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Satellite Programme:
Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms
Programme details
Programme description
Formation of 5 satellites, for observation of the magnetosphere.
NASA programme with support from several collaborating institutes. NASA/GSFC responsible of the programme, SSL (Space Sciences Laboratory) of the University of California, Berkeley, responsible of science management.
The satellite stabilisation is by spin.
The design lifetime is 2 years.
The five satellites are flown aligned along the Magnetoshere tail, in highly elliptical orbits with inclinations in the range 4.5-9-0°.
For details, see http://www.nasa.gov/themis .
Data circulation
All operations managed by NASA/GSFC by exploiting the international Deep Space Network Data Downlink.
Data processing is performed by the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL), Berkeley.
Agencies
NASA
Programme lifetime
2007 - 2022
Associated satellites and instruments
Note: red tag => no longer operational , green tag => operational
, blue tag => planned
Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 released
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 was released including new features related to Gap Analysis and satellite status information. With version 2.6 OSCAR/Space has a new URL; https://space.oscar.wmo.int . Please read more via the link here .