WIND Satellite Mission Summary

CEOS EO HANDBOOK – MISSION SUMMARY - WIND -

Full Name

WIND Solar-Terrestrial Mission

Status

Operational (extended)

Mission Agencies

NASA

Launch Date

01 Nov 1994

Mission Links

mission site

EOL Date

Jan 2030

EO Portal Info

NORAD Catalog #

International Designator

Orbit Type

Earth-Sun L-1

Orbit Period

Orbit Sense

Orbit Inclination

0 deg

Orbit Altitude

Orbit Longitude

Orbit LST

Repeat Cycle

Objectives and Applications

WIND is a NASA/GSFC solar-terrestrial mission within the US GGS (Global Geospace Science) initiative and also part of the ISTP (International Solar-Terrestrial Physics) program. The objective is to study sources, acceleration mechanisms and propagation processes of energetic particles and the solar wind. Investigation of solar wind mass momentum and energy) with input first from the day-side double lunar swingby orbit, and later from a small halo orbit at L1. WIND, together with GEOTAIL (ISAS, J

Mission Measurements

Mission Instruments

OpenSearch Datasets

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3-D Plasma and Energetic Particle Investigation on WIND

Energetic Particles: Acceleration, Composition and Transport (EPACT) Investigation on WIND

Gamma Ray Burst Detector (KONUS) on WIND

Magnetic Field Investigation (MFI) on WIND

Radio and Plasma Wave Investigation (WAVES) on WIND $The main purpose of the Wind spacecraft is to measure the incoming solar wind, magnetic fields and particles, although early on it will also observe the Earth's foreshock region. Wind, together with Geotail, Polar, SOHO, and Cluster projects, constitute a cooperative scientific satellite project designated the International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) program which aims at gaining improved understanding of the physics of solar terrestrial relations. The WAVES investigation on the WIND spacecraft provides comprehensive coverage of radio and plasma wave phenomena in the frequency range from a fraction of a Hertz up to about 14 MHz for the electric field and 3 kHz for the magnetic field. This package will permit several kind of measurements, all of which are essential to understanding the Earth's environment --the Geospace-- and its response to varying solar wind conditions. In situ measurements of different modes of plasma waves will give information on local processes and couplings in different regions and boundaries of the Geospace leading to plasma instabilities: magneto-acoustic waves, ion cyclotron waves, whistler waves, electron plasma oscillations, electron burst noise and other types of electrostatic or electromagnetic waves. and from the Polar-Wind-Geotail (PWG) Data Archive (ftp://pwgdata.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/00readme.html) and at the NSSDC CDAWeb (http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cdaweb/)$
Solar Wind Experiment (SWE) on WIND

The SWICS/MASS/STICS (SMS) Instrument Package on WIND

Transient Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (TGRS) on WIND

Selected FedEO OpenSearch Results (view all 27 results: browser , table )
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