Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

ERG (ARASE)

Epsilon

SUCCESS
Success

Tuesday, December 20, 2016 · 11:00 UTC

Mission

/01

The ERG  (Exploration of energization and Radiation in Geospace) project is a mission to study the Van Allen belts. The task is to elucidate how highly charged electrons are born while they generate and vanish repeatedly along with space storms caused by the disturbance of solar wind, influenced by space storms, and how space storms are developed.

Mission Type

Earth Science

Orbit

Elliptical Orbit (Elliptical)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Epsilon

Launch Pad

Mu Center

Uchinoura Space Center, Japan

31.251° N, 131.082° E

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Pad Launches

37

Location Launches

28

Agency Launches

83

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