Satellite THEMIS E (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) of NASA/University of California, Berkeley (in partnership with Germany, France, Austria, Canada)

Name of Satellite, Alternate Names THEMIS E (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms)
Country of Operator/Owner Multinational
Operator/Owner NASA/University of California, Berkeley (in partnership with Germany, France, Austria, Canada)
Users Government/Civil
Purpose Space Physics
Class of Orbit Elliptical
Type of Orbit
Longitude of GEO (degrees) 0
Perigee (km) 474
Apogee (km) 87526
Eccentricity 0.86412547151082
Inclination (degrees) 15.7
Period (minutes) 1875.53
Launch Mass (kg.) 126
Dry Mass (kg.) 77
Power (watts) 40
Date of Launch 17-02-2007
Expected Lifetime 2 yrs.
Contractor Swales Aerospace
Country of Contractor USA
Launch Site Cape Canaveral
Launch Vehicle Delta 2
COSPAR Number 2007-004E
NORAD Number 30798
Comments Five phase mission to study Earth´s auroras; mission extended to 2012. Themis B and C retasked as Artemis mission to L1 and L2.

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