United States Air Force

ACE

Delta II 7920-8

SUCCESS
Success

Monday, August 25, 1997 · 14:39 UTC

Mission

/01

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.

Mission Type

Astrophysics

Orbit

Heliocentric L1 (L1-point)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Delta II 7920-8

Variant: 7920-8

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 17A

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

28.447° N, 80.565° W

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