United States Air ForceDelta II 7920-8Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Delta 7920-8 | ACE
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United States Air Force's 981st launch · 9th this year · humanity's 4,165th orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Aug 25, 14:39 – Aug 25, 14:39 UTC
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ACE
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.
Astrophysics · Heliocentric L1 (L1-point)
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