This description has been obtained from Section 3.13 of the Users Guide to the Double Star Science Data System, DSP-IWF-TN-0002.
The first of the two spacecraft (TC-1), the 'equatorial' one, was launched on 29 December 2003 at 19:06 UT. The orbit of TC-1 is elliptical (580 × 78952 km, corresponding to a geocentric apogee height of 13.4 Earth radii) and is inclined at 28.2 degrees to the equator. This enables TC-1 to investigate not only the Earth's magnetic tail, but also the sunward boundary between the magnetosphere and the solar wind. Thus it is sampling key regions on the day and night sides of the Earth where the process of magnetic reconnection occurs. TC-1's nominal period of operations is expected to exceed 18 months.
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This description has been obtained from Section 3.13 of the Users Guide to the Double Star Science Data System, DSP-IWF-TN-0002.
The first of the two spacecraft (TC-1), the 'equatorial' one, was launched on 29 December 2003 at 19:06 UT. The orbit of TC-1 is elliptical (580 × 78952 km, corresponding to a geocentric apogee height of 13.4 Earth radii) and is inclined at 28.2 degrees to the equator. This enables TC-1 to investigate not only the Earth's magnetic tail, but also the sunward boundary between the magnetosphere and the solar wind. Thus it is sampling key regions on the day and night sides of the Earth where the process of magnetic reconnection occurs. TC-1's nominal period of operations is expected to exceed 18 months.
| Role | Person | StartDate | StopDate | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | ProjectScientist | spase://CNES/Person/CDPP-Archive/Christophe.Philippe.Escoubet |