Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Provider type
Government
Orbit
Elliptical
Mission type
Earth Science
Launch site
Japan
Date
Tue, 20 Dec 2016 11:00:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#5612 ever
Mission
The ERG  (Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace) project is a mission to study the Van Allen belts. The task is to elucidate how highly charged electrons are born while they generate and vanish repeatedly along with space storms caused by the disturbance of solar wind, influenced by space storms, and how space storms are developed.