Spacetrack Directory Name | MMS 1 |
Alternative name | MAGNETOSPHERIC MULTISCALE 1 |
Orbit launches | 2015-03-13 |
Country/organisation of origin | USA (US) |
Starting point | AFETR (Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canaveral, USA) |
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Perigee | 8430 km |
Apogee | 173566 km |
Height MMS 1 | 131720.9 km |
The Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) is a NASA robotic space mission to study the Earth's magnetosphere, using four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. The spacecraft were launched on 13 March 2015 at 02:44 UTC. It is designed to gather information about the microphysics of magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and turbulence, processes that occur in many astrophysical plasmas.
satellite MMS 1 Date of exalting 13.03.2015y. Average height of ISS MMS 1 hundred 131720.9 km. Average velocity MMS 1 is 5369.94 km/h. Inclination MMS 1 satellite 46.58°.