IMAGE
(Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, Explorer 78)
(satellite mission to study magnetosphere)
The IMAGE spacecraft
(for Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration)
imaged the Earth's
magnetosphere and its response to solar wind from
its 2000 launch until contact was lost in 2005.
Instruments:
Contact with the spacecraft was made for a while in 2018,
but lost again.
(spacecraft,magnetism,Earth,NASA,past)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAGE_(spacecraft)
http://grad.space.swri.edu/image/
https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://solarviews.com/eng/image.htm
https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/publication/document/sr_rev_2001/sr_rev_prop_2001.pdf
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=63e0c4f38117b748a78e840981606867e699a12c
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/a-detailed-timeline-of-the-image-mission-recovery
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-image-confirmed
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