TIMED
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The TIMED (Thermosphere • Ionosphere • Mesosphere • Energetics and Dynamics) mission is dedicated to study the influences that energetics and dynamics of the Sun and humans have on the least explored and understood region of Earth's atmosphere – the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere / Ionosphere (MLTI). The mission was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on 7 December 2001 aboard a Delta II rocket launch vehicle. The project is sponsored and managed by NASA, while the spacecraft was designed and assembled by the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. The miss
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Earth observation satellite
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- Hinode
- Mass
- 587
- Official website
- www.nasa.gov/timed
- Image
- TIMED.jpg
- Height
- 2.72
- Width
- 11.73
- Length
- 1.2
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2001-12-07
- space launch vehicle
- Delta II
- Commons category
- TIMED
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
- funder
- NASA
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
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Article · Português
TIMED (acrônimo de Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere energética and Dynamics) é um satélite artificial da NASA lançado ao espaço no dia 7 de dezembro de 2001 por meio de um foguete Delta II 7920 a partir da Base da Força Aérea de Vandenberg.
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