Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
THEMIS
The Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission began in February 2007 as a constellation of five NASA satellites (THEMIS A through THEMIS E) to study energy releases from Earth's magnetosphere known as substorms, magnetic phenomena that intensify auroras near Earth's poles. The name of the mission is an acronym alluding to the Titan, Themis.
Three of the satellites orbit the Earth within the magnetosphere, while two have been moved into orbit around the Moon. Those two were renamed ARTEMIS for Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction with the Sun. THEMIS B became ARTEMIS P1 and THEMIS C became ARTEMIS P2.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 630.0 kg
Highly Elliptical Orbit
Location
SLC-17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
2007
5th orbital launch attempt
United Launch Alliance
2nd mission
1st mission of 2007
2nd successful mission
Delta II
127th mission
1st mission of 2007
125th successful mission
72nd consecutive successful mission