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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
02:44:00
Friday March 13, 2015
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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
Agency
ULAPrice
$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
53rd
Mission
2nd
Mission of 2015
94th
Mission
3rd
Mission of 2015
12th
Orbital launch attempt