WIND
WIND Spacecraft
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WIND
Comprehensive Solar Wind Laboratory for Long-Term Solar Wind Measurements
Wind is a spin stabilized spacecraft launched in November 1, 1994 and placed in a halo orbit around the L1 Lagrange point, more than 200 Re upstream of Earth to observe the unperturbed solar wind that is about to impact the magnetosphere of Earth. Wind, together with Geotail, Polar, SoHO and Cluster, constitute a cooperative scientific satellite project designated the International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) program that aims at gaining improved understanding of the physics of solar terrestrial relations.
The primary science objectives of the Wind mission are:
- Provide complete plasma, energetic particle and magnetic field for magnetospheric and ionospheric studies.
- Investigate basic plasma processes occurring in the near-Earth solar wind.
- Provide baseline, 1 AU, ecliptic plane observations for inner and outer heliospheric missions.
NEWS
New Wind Project home page: The Wind mission project home page has been updated to incorporate the latest information on data product availability and mission plans. The page can be reached through a new URL http://wind.nasa.gov. This new page provides a single point access to the various instrument and data pages.
2008 Senior Review Results: The 2008 Senior Review results received on May 22, 2008, are very favorable for Wind. The mission was placed in the "excellent, but less compelling" category and the project was instructed to continuing virtually unchanged from what is outlined in the proposal.
The proposal and the results can be found at the following links:
2008 Wind Senior Review Proposal
2008 Wind Mission Archive Plan
Final Report from the 2008 Senior Review
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