Objectives and Applications
GEOTAIL is a collaborative mission of Japan and the USA, of the agencies JAXA/ISAS (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science), and NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), respectively, within the program ISTP (International Solar-Terrestrial Physics). The spacecraft was built and integrated by ISAS, the launch was provided by NASA/GSFC. Responsibilities are shared in science instruments, telemetry data acquisition, and data processing and archiving. GEOTAIL inaugurates the Collaborative Solar-Terrestrial Research Program (COSTR). COSTR defines the NASA contributions to the GEOTAIL, SOHO, and Cluster missions.
Full Name
GEOTAIL
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
24 Jul 1992
Mission Links
EOL Date
28 Nov 2022
Orbit Type
Highly elliptical
Orbit Period
Orbit Sense
Orbit Inclination
7.5 deg
Orbit Altitude
Orbit Longitude
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