Launch Overview
Vehicle
Epsilon
Agency
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Site / Pad
USC / EP
Outcome
Success
Flight
E-2
COSPAR Designator
2016-080
Mission
ERG (Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace) (Earth Science)
The ERG  (Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace) project is a mission to study the Van Allen belts. The task is to elucidate how highly charged electrons are born while they generate and vanish repeatedly along with space storms caused by the disturbance of solar wind, influenced by space storms, and how space storms are developed.
Vehicle & Provider
Rocket
Epsilon
Provider
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Agency launches
28 (1 YTD)
Site launches
37 (1 YTD)
Pad launches
32 (1 YTD)