NASA launches dual Dynamics Explorer spacecraft
Abstract
A Delta launch vehicle was used to insert Dynamics Explorer A into a highly elliptical polar orbit, ranging from 675 to 24,945 km, and Dynamics Explorer B satellite into a low polar orbit, ranging from 306 to 1,300 km. The two spacecraft are designed to provide specific knowledge about the interaction of energy, electric currents, electric fields, and plasmas between the magnetosphere, the ionosphere, and the atmosphere.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- August 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981STIN...8128125.
- Keywords:
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- Dynamics Explorer Satellites;
- Satellite Orbits;
- Spacecraft Launching;
- Delta Launch Vehicle;
- Earth Magnetosphere;
- Solar Terrestrial Interactions;
- Space Missions;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles