Mission record

Delta 7920-8 | ACE

Delta II· Space Launch Complex 17A· Success
Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
United States Air Force
Provider type
Government
Orbit
L1-point
Mission type
Astrophysics
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Mon, 25 Aug 1997 14:39:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#4165 ever

Mission

The objective of the ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) is to collect observations of particles of solar, interplanetary, interstellar, and galactic origins, spanning the energy range from that of keV.solar wind ions to galactic cosmic ray nuclei up to 600 MeV/nucleon.

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