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Delta 7920-8 | ACE
Delta II 7920-8
Aug 25, 1997, 2:39 PM UTC
Aug 25, 1997, 2:39 PM UTC
Mission Elapsed Time
T-00:00:00
Mission Details
The objective of the ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) is to collect observations of particles of solar, interplanetary, interstellar, and galactic origins, spanning the energy range from that of keV.solar wind ions to galactic cosmic ray nuclei up to 600 MeV/nucleon.
- Type
- Astrophysics
- Orbit
- Heliocentric L1 (L1-point)
Launch Site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- 🇺🇸 USA
Weather at Launch
- Temp
- 25.9°C
- Wind
- 7 km/h @ 72°
- Sky
- Drizzle
- Source
- open-meteo-archive