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IMAGE
Delta II · Planetary Science
2000Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg
Mission
IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration) uses neutral atom, ultraviolet, and radio imaging techniques to identify the dominant mechanisms for injecting plasma into the magnetosphere on substorm and magnetic storm time scales, determine the directly driven response of the magnetosphere to solar wind changes; and, discover how and where magnetospheric plasmas are energized, transported, and subsequently lost during substorms and magnetic storms.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Delta II
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 2W
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2