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- WIND was launched on November 1, 1994 and is the first of two NASA spacecraft in the Global Geospace Science initiative and part of the ISTP Project. WIND was positioned in a sunward, multiple double-lunar swingby orbit with a maximum apogee of 250Re during the first two years of operation. This was followed by a halo orbit at the Earth-Sun L1 point. The science objectives of the WIND mission are: - Provide conplete plasma, energetic particle, and magnetic field input for magnetospheric and ionospheric studies. - Determine the magnetospheric output to interplanetary space in the up-stream region - Investigate basic plasma processes occuring in the near-Earth solar wind - Provide baseline ecliptic plane observations to be used in heliospheric latitudes from ULYSSES. WIND carries the following instruments: Radio and Plasma Wave experiment (WAVES) Energetic Particle Acceleration, Composition, and Transport (EPACT) Solar Wind Experiment (SWE) Solar Wind and Suprathermal Ion Composition Studies (SWICS/MASS/STICS) Magnetic Fields Investigation (MFI) 3-D Plasma and Energetic Particle Analyzer (3DP) Transient Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (TGRS) Gamma Ray Burst Studies (KONUS) For more information, see: http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/wind.shtml and http://ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov/waves/
Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: WIND Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Solar/Space Observation Satellites Short_Name: WIND End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: GGS/Wind Short_Name: ISTP/Wind Short_Name: Wind/GGS Short_Name: Wind/ISTP Short_Name: 23333 Short_Name: 1994-071A End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: SWIMS Short_Name: KONUS Short_Name: TGRS Short_Name: 3DP Short_Name: MFI Short_Name: SMS Short_Name: SWE Short_Name: EPACT Short_Name: WAVES End_Group Group: Orbit Perigee: 235 ER Apogee: 265 ER Orbit_Type: LPO > L1 > Lissajous Orbit > Halo Orbit End_Group Online_Resource: http://ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov/waves/ Sample_Image: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/spacecraft/wind.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 1994-11-01 Launch_Site: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center, USA Primary_Sponsor: NASA End_Group End_Group
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