Charge Composition Explorer
Sign in to saveAlso known as CCE, AMPTE-CCE, Explorer 65, AMPTE 1, AMPTE-Charge Composition Explorer
AMPTE-Charge Composition Explorer, also called as AMPTE-CCE or Explorer 65, was a NASA satellite designed and tasked to study the magnetosphere of Earth, being launched as part of the Explorer program. The AMPTE (Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers) mission was designed to study the access of solar wind ions to the magnetosphere, the convective-diffusive transport and energization of magnetospheric particles, and the interactions of plasmas in space.
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- NASA
- Country of origin
- United States
- Follows
- Solar Mesosphere Explorer
- Mass
- 242
- Manufacturer
- TRW Inc.
- Official website
- sd-www.jhuapl.edu/AMPTE
- Image
- CCE AMPTE-1.jpg
- Significant event
- failure
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1984-08-16
- space launch vehicle
- Delta 3000
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1989-07-12
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
- funder
- NASA
- principal investigator
- Stamatios Krimigis
- Commons category
- Explorer 65 (AMPTE-CCE)
- end cause
- failure
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Il Charge Composition Explorer (CCE), a volte citato anche come Explorer 65 o AMPTE-1, è un satellite NASA non più attivo lanciato nel 1984 per lo studio delle particelle cariche presenti nella magnetosfera. L'apparato scientifico del satellite consisteva in cinque strumenti particolarmente potenti per misurare le caratteristiche degli elettroni e la composizione dei nuclei atomici la cui energia è compresa tra 0,4 e diverse centinaia di MeV.
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