Delta 7326-9.5 | IMAGE

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: United States Air Force (Government)
• Rocket: Delta II 7326-9.5 — Delta family

Mission

IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration) uses neutral atom, ultraviolet, and radio imaging techniques to identify the dominant mechanisms for injecting plasma into the magnetosphere on substorm and magnetic storm time scales, determine the directly driven response of the magnetosphere to solar wind changes; and, discover how and where magnetospheric plasmas are energized, transported, and subsequently lost during substorms and magnetic storms.

• Type: Planetary Science
• Orbit: Elliptical Orbit (Elliptical)

Launch Site

• Pad: Space Launch Complex 2W
• Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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