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Satellite Programme: Transition Region and Coronal Explorer
Programme details
Programme description
Single-satellite programme, for Space weather.
NASA programme: developed and operated NASA/GSFC.
The platform is actively stabilised over 3 axes.
The design life time is 1 year.
The satellite exploits a sunsynchronous dawn-dusk orbit at 6:00.
See detailed descriptions at
http://trace.lmsal.com
.
Data circulation
Data are downlinked to the stations of Wallops, VA, and Fairbanks, Alaska.
Processing at the GSFC TRACE Science Operations Center.
Agencies
NASA
Programme lifetime
1998 - 2010
Associated satellites and instruments
Note: red tag => no longer operational , green tag => operational , blue tag => planned
Transition Region and Coronal Explorer
TRACE
(1998-2010)
TRACE