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The Global Geospace Science (GGS) ''Wind'' satellite is a NASA science spacecraft launched at 04:31:00 EST on November 1, 1994 from launch pad 17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Merritt Island, Florida aboard a McDonnell Douglas Delta II 7925-10 rocket. ''Wind'' was designed and manufactured by Martin Marietta Astro Space Division in East Windsor, New Jersey. The satellite is a spin stabilized cylindrical satellite with a diameter of 2.4 m and a height of 1.8 m.〔 It was deployed to study radio and plasma that occur in the solar wind and in the Earth's magnetosphere before the solar wind reaches the Earth. The spacecraft's original mission was to orbit the Sun at the Lagrangian point, but this was delayed when the SOHO and ACE spacecraft were sent to the same location. ''Wind'' has been at continuously since 2004, and is still operating as of June 27, 2015.〔 ''Wind'' currently has enough fuel to last roughly 53 years at L1. ''Wind'' continues to produce relevant research, with its data having contributed to over 1400 publications since 2009 and over 2200 publications prior to 2009. As of February 10, 2015 (not including 2015 publications), the total number of publications either directly or indirectly using ''Wind'' data is ~3646.〔 Note that many of these publications utilized ''Wind'' data indirectly by citing the OMNI dataset at (CDAWeb ), which relies heavily upon ''Wind'' measurements. Mission operations are conducted from the Multi-Mission Operations Center (MMOC) in Building 14 at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. ''Wind'' data can be accessed using the SPEDAS software. ''Wind'' is the sister ship to GGS Polar. == The science objectives of the ''Wind'' mission == * Provide complete plasma, energetic particle, and magnetic field input for magnetospheric and ionospheric studies. * Determine the magnetospheric output to interplanetary space in the up-stream region. * Investigate basic plasma processes occurring in the near-Earth solar wind. * Provide baseline ecliptic plane observations to be used in heliospheric latitudes from ULYSSES. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WIND (spacecraft)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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