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Delta 7920-8 | ACE

Status: Success  |  Launched: Aug 25, 1997 14:39 UTC

Launch Provider & Rocket

Mission

The objective of the ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) is to collect observations of particles of solar, interplanetary, interstellar, and galactic origins, spanning the energy range from that of keV.solar wind ions to galactic cosmic ray nuclei up to 600 MeV/nucleon.

  • Type: Astrophysics
  • Orbit: Heliocentric L1 (L1-point)

Launch Site

  • Pad: Space Launch Complex 17A
  • Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
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