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Tan Ce 1
Long March 2C/SM · Earth Science
2003Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1), Xichang Satellite Launch Center
Mission
The Double Star spacecraft, called also Tan Ce (TC) which in Chinese means ‘Probe‘, is a joint Chinese and ESA mission to study the effect of the Sun on the Earth's environment. The polar spacecraft (TC-2) will monitor the energy input from the solar wind into the polar ionosphere. The equatorial spacecraft (TC-1) will investigate the so-called substorm process, when it is in the Earth's magnetotail, and the entry of solar particle on the front side of the magnetosphere.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- CASC
- Rocket
- Long March 2C/SM
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Pad
- Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1)
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2