Delta 7920-8 | ACE

Name: Delta 7920-8 | ACE
Start: 1997-08-25T14:39:00Z
Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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 Details

Launch date: August 25, 1997 at 02:39 PM UTC
Launch vehicle: Delta II
Operator: United States Air Force
Launch site: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission type: Astrophysics