Magnetospheric Multiscale — archive:mms
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Magnetospheric Multiscale — archive:mms was an archive-qualified launch conducted on March 12, 2015 from an unresolved launch site using Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft constellation, carrying 4 recorded payload entries. The recorded outcome was success or operational; the census identity distinguishes this attempt from flights that may share a mission name or launch date.
- Launch class
- Archive-qualified launch
- Launch date
- March 12, 2015
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The Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft, enclosed in a protective shipping container, are delivered by truck to the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near Kennedy Space Center. MMS is a Solar Terrestrial Probes mission comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth’s magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics of three fundamental plasma processes: magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration and turbulence. Launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is targeted for March 12, 2015.
About this launch
Existing mission record has a dated physical launch and qualified sources but did not meet the deterministic GCAT identity match threshold. This launch is retained as its own historical attempt so its date, vehicle, origin, operator, trajectory, payload, and outcome can be followed without collapsing it into a program total.
Magnetospheric Multiscale — archive:mms used Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft constellation from an unresolved launch site. The technical record includes the Four-spacecraft tetrahedral formation in highly elliptical Earth orbit profile. 4 payload entries are connected to the launch manifest.
Launch facts
- Launch date
- March 12, 2015
- Vehicle
- Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft constellation
- Outcome
- success or operational
- Launch site
- an unresolved launch site
Technical details and catalog designation
Trajectory measurements and catalog terminology are retained here when available. Codes follow the original records.
- Launch class
- Archive-qualified launch
- Destination / profile
- Four-spacecraft tetrahedral formation in highly elliptical Earth orbit
- Payload entries
- 4
- Catalog designation
- archive:mms
Payload manifest
Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft constellation
Catalog identifiers held
Atlas V 421
Catalog identifiers held
More than 100 sensors across fast-plasma, energetic-particle, electric-field, magnetic-field, and active spacecraft-potential-control suites
Catalog identifiers held
Four-spacecraft tetrahedral formation in highly elliptical Earth orbit
Catalog identifiers held
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- Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft constellationPayload manifest entry
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- Atlas V 421Payload manifest entry
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- More than 100 sensors across fast-plasma, energetic-particle, electric-field, magnetic-field, and active spacecraft-potential-control suitesPayload manifest entry
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- Four-spacecraft tetrahedral formation in highly elliptical Earth orbitPayload manifest entry
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