Interstellar Boundary Explorer, IBEX, Spacecraft Ephemeris Virtual Instrument: The NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer, IBEX, spacecraft was launched on October 19, 2008 to discover the interaction between the solar wind and the interstellar medium. Its two energetic neutral atom, ENA, instruments measure 10 eV to 6 keV ENAs indicative of charged particle populations near and beyond the heliospheric termination shock. The spacecraft is in a geocentric, 8-day orbit between 7000 km and 37 Re. Its spin axis is adjusted each orbit to point towards the sun. Its two ENA detectors look normal to the spin axis, thus measuring 360° swaths of the sky each 15 s spacecraft spin. The full sky is measured every 6 months.
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Interstellar Boundary Explorer, IBEX, Spacecraft Ephemeris Virtual Instrument: The NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer, IBEX, spacecraft was launched on October 19, 2008 to discover the interaction between the solar wind and the interstellar medium. Its two energetic neutral atom, ENA, instruments measure 10 eV to 6 keV ENAs indicative of charged particle populations near and beyond the heliospheric termination shock. The spacecraft is in a geocentric, 8-day orbit between 7000 km and 37 Re. Its spin axis is adjusted each orbit to point towards the sun. Its two ENA detectors look normal to the spin axis, thus measuring 360° swaths of the sky each 15 s spacecraft spin. The full sky is measured every 6 months.
| Role | Person | StartDate | StopDate | Note | |
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| 1. | PrincipalInvestigator | spase://SMWG/Person/David.J.McComas | |||
| 2. | MetadataContact | spase://SMWG/Person/Robert.M.Candey | |||
| 3. | MetadataContact | spase://SMWG/Person/Lee.Frost.Bargatze |
Interstellar Boundary Explorer, IBEX, Mission, Instrument, and Data Release Description, hosted by the Southwest Research Institute, SwRI
Interstellar Boundary Explorer, IBEX, overview web page with links to published descriptive and scienctific publications, hosted by Southwest Research Institute, SwRI
Author List: McComas, D. J., Allegrini, F., Bochsler, P., Bzowski, M., Collier, M., Fahr, H., Fichtner, H., Frisch, P., Funsten, H. O., Fuselier, S. A., Gloeckler, G., Gruntman, M., Izmodenov, V., Knappenberger, P., Lee, M., Livi, S., Mitchell, D. G., Mobius, E., Moore, T., Pope, S., Reisenfeld, D., Roelof, E. C., Scherrer, J., Schwadron, N. A., Tyler, R., Wieser, M., Witte, M., Wurz, P., & Zank, G.
NSSDC Master Catalog Listing for the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, IBEX, Spacecraft, NSSDCA/COSPAR ID: 2008-051A