MMS

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

02:44:00

Friday March 13, 2015

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Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS)

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The Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) is a NASA unmanned space mission to study the Earth's magnetosphere, using four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. It is designed to gather information about the microphysics of magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and turbulence, processes that occur in many astrophysical plasmas.

Highly Elliptical Orbit

4 Payloads

5,440 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Atlas V 421

Active 2007 to 2022

United Launch Alliance logo

Agency

ULA

Price

$123.00 million

Rocket

Diameter: 3.81m

Height: 58.3m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 13,600 kg

GTO: 6,890 kg

Liftoff Thrust

7,152 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4.2m

Height: 13.8m

Stages

2

Strap-ons

2

Launch Site

SLC-41

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

15 days 22 hours

Stats

Atlas V


53rd

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2015

United Launch Alliance


94th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2015

2015


12th

Orbital launch attempt