RAL Space Involvement
Instrumentation, the operation of the control and tracking centres and data analysis.
Mission Objectives
To measure natural plasma and released tracer ions into the space plasma environment. To distinguish between spatial structure and temporal changes in the plasma phenomena initiated by ion releases from the IRM and in the natural magnetospheric environment.
Launch Date
16 Aug 1984
Partners
Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL)
Further project information
NASA
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
For more information please contact: RAL Space Enquiries
