Van Allen Probes

 2012-046B

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JHU/APL Radiation Belt Storm Probe, 2 satellites in equatorial GTO. NASA GSFC STP/LWS mission.

Mass 658 kg full 630 kg dry? Oct+4 pan + 8 booms, approx 0.9h 2.0d? Launch by Atlas V 401

RBSP
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
2012 Aug 30	0805:27	Launch by Atlas V 401	CC SLC41
		T+4:03 BECO
		T+4:09 Atlas sep
		T+4:19 MES-1
		T+4:27 PLF sep
	0819:04	T+13:37 MECO-1	167 x 600 x 25.5
	0914:52	T+1:09:25 MES-2
	0919:31	T+1:14:04 MECO-2
	0924:17	T+1:18:50 A sep from B	597 x 30645 x 10.0
	0932	Centaur RCS orbit adjust 140s, raise apo 60 km
	0936:31	T+1:31:04 B sep from Centaur	601 x 30709 x 10.0
	0948?	Centaur deorbit adjust, 36s	-220 x 36062 x 10.3
	1940?	Centaur impact in Atlantic, 22W 5S?

Payload:

• ECT Energetic particle, composition and thermal plasma suite (UNH/Spence)

  • MagEIS Magnetic electron-ion spectrometer 30 keV-4MeV e, 20 keV-1 MeV ions);

  • HOPE Helium Oxygen Proton Electron from 20 eV to 45 keV;

  • REPT Relativistic E/P telescope, e 4-10 MeV, p 20-75 MeV

• EMFISIS E.and M. field instrument suite and integrated science (U Iowa/Kletzing) with triaxial magnetometer on rigid booms (2 booms, 3m each,from end of solar panels), central DPU, E field WAVES receiver

• EFW Electric Field and Waves suite (UMn/Wygant),

  • spin plane booms, 4, 80m and 100m tip to tip

  • axial booms, 2, 12m tip to tip

• RBSPICE RBSP Ion Composition Experiment (NJIT/Lanzerotti) Puck, ring current ion comp. snesor

• RPS Relativistic Proton Spectrometer (NRO/), 50 - 400 MeV Si detectors, 400 MeV-2 GeV p Cerenkov detector