Objectives and Applications
The Van Allen Probes mission is part of NASA's LWS (Living With a Star) Geospace program to explore fundamental processes that operate throughout the solar system, in particular those that generate hazardous space weather effects near the Earth and phenomena that could affect solar system exploration.
Full Name
Van Allen Probes
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
30 Aug 2012
Mission Links
EOL Date
18 Oct 2019
Orbit Type
Highly elliptical
Orbit Period
537.1 minutes
Orbit Sense
Orbit Inclination
10.2 deg
Orbit Altitude
Orbit Longitude
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International Designator
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