ACE Mission

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

25 Aug 1997, 2:39pm

Pad

Space Launch Complex 17A

Launch Service Provider

Mission

ACE

Mission Type

Astrophysics

Destination

Heliocentric L1

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.

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