Charge Composition Explorer
Sign in to saveAlso known as CCE, AMPTE-CCE, Explorer 65, AMPTE 1, AMPTE-Charge Composition Explorer
AMPTE-Charge Composition Explorer, also called as AMPTE-CCE or Explorer 65, was a NASA satellite designed and tasked to study the magnetosphere of Earth, being launched as part of the Explorer program. The AMPTE (Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers) mission was designed to study the access of solar wind ions to the magnetosphere, the convective-diffusive transport and energization of magnetospheric particles, and the interactions of plasmas in space.
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- NASA
- Country of origin
- United States
- Follows
- Solar Mesosphere Explorer
- Mass
- 242
- Manufacturer
- TRW Inc.
- Official website
- sd-www.jhuapl.edu/AMPTE
- Image
- CCE AMPTE-1.jpg
- Significant event
- failure
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1984-08-16
- space launch vehicle
- Delta 3000
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1989-07-12
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
- funder
- NASA
- principal investigator
- Stamatios Krimigis
- Commons category
- Explorer 65 (AMPTE-CCE)
- end cause
- failure
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Mission
- Spacecraft
- Launch
- Instruments
- Experiments
- CCE Magnetometer (MAG)
- Charge-Energy-Mass Spectrometer (CHEM)
- Hot Plasma Composition Experiment (HPCE)
- Medium Energy Particle Analyzer (MEPA)
- Plasma Wave Experiment (PWE)
- End of mission
- See also
- References
- External links
AMPTE-Charge Composition Explorer, also called as AMPTE-CCE or Explorer 65, was a NASA satellite designed and tasked to study the magnetosphere of Earth, being launched as part of the Explorer program. The AMPTE (Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers) mission was designed to study the access of solar wind ions to the magnetosphere, the convective-diffusive transport and energization of magnetospheric particles, and the interactions of plasmas in space.
== Mission == The AMPTE-CCE is one of the three components of the international space mission AMPTE, which also included AMPTE-IRM (Ion Release Module), designed by Germany, and AMPTE-UKS (United Kingdom Subsatellite), provided by the United Kingdom.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Charge Composition Explorer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.