CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- Van Allen Probes
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Full Name
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Van Allen Probes
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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NASA
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Launch Date
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30 Aug 2012
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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18 Oct 2019
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EO Portal Info
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NORAD Catalog #
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International Designator
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Orbit Type
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Highly elliptical
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Orbit Period
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537.1 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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10.2 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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Orbit Longitude
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Orbit LST
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Repeat Cycle
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Objectives and Applications
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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.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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No IDN OpenSearch datasets found.
No FedEO OpenSearch datasets found.
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