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Wind
Delta II · Astrophysics
1994Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral
Mission
The main purpose of the Wind spacecraft is to measure the incoming solar wind, magnetic fields and particles, although early on it will also observe the Earth's foreshock region. Wind, together with Geotail, Polar, SOHO, and Cluster projects, constitute a cooperative scientific satellite project designated the International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) program which aims at gaining improved understanding of the physics of solar terrestrial relations.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Delta II
- Orbit
- L1-point
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 17B
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2 + NASA