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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
Orbit
Cross-magnetosphere orbit
Altitude
3000 km
Inclination
31
°
Space agency
JAXA
Status
Operational
Details on Status (as
available)
Launch
20 Dec 2016
EOL
≥2022
Last update:
2022-01-03
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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Satellite payload
All known instruments flying on
ERG
* The information in this field is estimated or assumed