CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY
- RAX
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Full Name
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Radio Aurora eXplorer
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Status
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Mission complete
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Mission Agencies
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University of Michigan
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Launch Date
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20 Nov 2010
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Mission Links
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mission site
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EOL Date
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19 Jan 2011
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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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Inclined, non-sun-synchronous
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Orbit Period
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97.7 minutes
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Orbit Sense
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Orbit Inclination
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72 deg
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Orbit Altitude
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650 km
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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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RAX (Radio Aurora eXplorer) was a collaborative nanosatellite mission of the University of Michigan and SRI International, with the objective to study plasma instabilities that lead to magnetic field-aligned irregularities (FIA) of electron density in the lower polar thermosphere. The mission was launched in November 2010 and stopped operations in spring of 2011 due to power system anomaly.
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Mission Measurements
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Mission Instruments
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OpenSearch Datasets
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