Launch Overview
Vehicle
Delta 7326-9.5
Agency
United States Air Force
Site / Pad
V / SLC2W
Outcome
Success
Flight
D277
COSPAR Designator
2000-017
Mission
IMAGE (Planetary Science)
IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration) uses neutral atom, ultraviolet, and radio imaging techniques to identify the dominant mechanisms for injecting plasma into the magnetosphere on substorm and magnetic storm time scales, determine the directly driven response of the magnetosphere to solar wind changes; and, discover how and where magnetospheric plasmas are energized, transported, and subsequently lost during substorms and magnetic storms.
Vehicle & Provider
Rocket
Delta II 7326-9.5
Provider
United States Air Force
Agency launches
1021 (2 YTD)
Site launches
600 (3 YTD)
Pad launches
64 (1 YTD)