THEMIS
Sign in to saveAlso known as Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms, MIDEX 5
Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission began in February 2007 as a constellation of five NASA satellites (THEMIS-A through THEMIS-E) to study energy releases from Earth's magnetosphere known as substorms, magnetic phenomena that intensify auroras near Earth's poles. The name of the mission is an acronym alluding to the Titan Themis.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- THEMIS
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Explorer 85 – THEMIS-A – THEMIS-P5 – MIDEX-5A* Explorer 86 – THEMIS-B (ARTEMIS-P1) – THEMIS-P1 – MIDEX-5B* Explorer 87 – THEMIS-C (ARTEMIS-P2) – THEMIS-P2 – MIDEX-5C* Explorer 88 – THEMIS-D – THEMIS-P3 – MIDEX-5D* Explorer 89 – THEMIS-E – THEMIS-P4 – MIDEX-5E
- Spaceflight.image
- Five Themis satellites seen from above.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Five THEMIS satellites
- Spaceflight.image_size
- 300px
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Magnetospheric research
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2007-004 (A, B, C, D, E)
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 30580, 30581, 30582, 30583, 30584
- Spaceflight.website
- http://themis.igpp.ucla.edu/
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- Planned: 2 years Elapsed:
- Spaceflight.spacecraft
- Explorer LXXXV
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_type
- Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_bus
- THEMIS
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- Swales Aerospace
- Spaceflight.launch_mass
- 126 kg (each)
- Spaceflight.power
- 37 watts (each)
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 17 February 2007, 23:01:00 UTC
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Spacecraft
- Testing
- Launch
- FAST
- Mission status
- Extended mission
- ARTEMIS
- Instruments
- Aboard the spacecraft
- Ground based
- Research results
- Lists of relevant topics
- Other relevant spacecraft
- See also
- References
- External links
Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission began in February 2007 as a constellation of five NASA satellites (THEMIS-A through THEMIS-E) to study energy releases from Earth's magnetosphere known as substorms, magnetic phenomena that intensify auroras near Earth's poles. The name of the mission is an acronym alluding to the Titan Themis.
Three of the satellites orbit the Earth within the magnetosphere, while two have been moved into orbit around the Moon. Those two were renamed ARTEMIS for '''Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun. THEMIS-B became ARTEMIS-P1 and THEMIS-C became ARTEMIS-P2. ARTEMIS-P1 and -P2 together comprise the THEMIS–ARTEMIS''' mission.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “THEMIS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.