ACE/MAG Project |
| The Bartol Research Institute
(BRI) in collaboration with the Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics
(LEP) at the Goddard Space Flight Center
(GSFC), has built and delivered a magnetometer instrument which was
flown on the Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) from the Kennedy Space
Center on board a Delta rocket on August 25, 1997 .
[See the Launch movie 1.7MB] |
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Magnetometer Instrument
The Magnetometer instrument consists of one electronics box mounted on the spacecraft
top deck and of two sensors mounted at the end of two boom.
ACE Spacecraft
The
spacecraft was built at the Applied Physics Laboratory of the John Hopkins
University in Laurel, MD. The photo at right shows how the magnetometer
sensors are mounted at the end of of two secondary booms hinged at the end
of two of the four solar panels.
- The ACE Spacecraft and the JHU/APL Team that built it.
- Blowup diagram of the ACE spacecraft including internal fuel tanks and instrument locations.
Launch and Mission
- Planned trajectory for ACE - From Earth to L1
- Composite picture from the ACE launch (232K).
- Images, Movies and Sound Bites - Courtesy of Florida Today Space Online - 8/25/97
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NASA/KSC
Photograph Archives
- Mission Status Reports - Ended January 30, 1998.
Science
- First Results - The ACE/MAG boom deployment
- ACE Science Center - OnLine Data and Documentation
- ACE/MAG Browse Data - From the ACE Science Center
- ACE Real-Time Solar-Wind data made available by NOAA within minutes of the spacecraft observation.
- ACE News - Latest science report and access to archives
- ACE/MAG Publications including talks and K-12 outreach efforts.
- A list of ACE disturbances and transients as observed by the ACE/MAG and SWEPAM instruments, including shocks, magnetic clouds, counterstreaming electron events (either CMEs or distant terrestrial foreshock periods), and large magnetic holes.
The ACE/MAG Team
- Bartol Research Institute (BRI)
- Norman F. Ness, Experiment Manager (nfness@bartol.udel.edu)
- Jacques L'Heureux, Instrument Manager (jlheureux@hq.usra.edu)
- Charles W. Smith, Data Manager (chuck@bartol.udel.edu)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
- Len Burlaga, Co-Investigator (u2leb@lepvax.gsfc.nasa.gov)
- Mario Acuña, Instrument Scientist (macuna@gsfcmail.nasa.gov)
Related Links
- ACE/Caltech Home Page - From the Science Project Office
- ACE/GSFC Home Page - From the Mission Project Office
- ACE/APL FactSheet Page - From the Spacecraft Fabricator
- Florida Today Space Online - The best source of what is happening today in space
Original HTML Author: Jacques L'Heureux - jlheureux@hq.usra.edu
Current Author: Charles W. Smith - chuck@bartol.udel.edu
Last modified: April 12, 1999