BackForward Satellite: ERG 

Satellite details
Acronym ERG
Full name Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace
Satellite Description
  • Single satellite of the ERG programme, also knowns as SPRING-B, or "Arase" in Japanese.
  • Main mission:Space weather, particularly in the magnetosphere and across the Van Allen belts.
  • Highly-elliptical Earth Orbit (HEO), with perigee 300 km and apogee 30,000 km
Mass at launch 350 kg Dry mass
Power
Data access link no link provided
Data access information
  • TBD.
Orbit Cross-magnetosphere orbit Altitude 3000 km
Inclination 31 °

 

Space agency JAXA
Status Operational
Details on Status
(as available)
Launch 20 Dec 2016 EOL ≥2021
Last update: 2021-08-26
Associated satellite programme and related satellites

Note: red tag: no longer operational , green tag: operational , blue tag : future

Satellite Payload

All known Instruments flying on ERG

Acronym Full name
LEP-e Low-energy particle experiments - electron analyzer
MEP-e Medium-energy particle experiments - electron analyzer
HEP-e High-energy electron experiments
XEP-e Extremely high-energy electron experiments
LEP-i Low-energy particle experiments - ion mass analyzer
MEP-i Medium-energy particle experiments - ion mass analyzer
MGF Magnetic field experiment
PWE Plasma Wave Experiment
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