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IMAGE

NASA geomagnetic satellite
Vehicle Geomagnetic Satellite Q51151

Facts

22 properties
Instance of
geomagnetic satellite
Official website
image.gsfc.nasa.gov[16]
Website
image.gsfc.nasa.gov
Launch date
2000-03-25
Part of
Medium Explorer program[5]
Country of origin
United States[7]
Diameter
2.25 m
End time
December 18, 2005[11]
Height
1.52 m[19]
Launch contractor
Boeing Defense, Space & Security[17]
Launch vehicle
Delta II
Manufacturer
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space[4]
Mass
494 kg
Operator
Goddard Space Flight Center, Southwest Research Institute[2][3]
Powered by
spacecraft solar array, nickel–cadmium battery[8][9]
Principal investigator
James L. Burch
Satellite of
polar orbit
Significant event
rocket launch, failure, rediscovery[13][14][15]
Space launch vehicle
Delta II[6]
Start point
Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 2 West[18]
Type of orbit
polar orbit[10]
UTC date of spacecraft launch
March 25, 2000[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Explorer 78 en IMAGE en Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration en MIDEX-1 fr Explorer 78 fr Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration zh 圖像
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
IMAGE (Explorer 78).jpg ↗
COSPAR ID
2000-017A
Freebase ID
/m/04549t
NAIF ID
-166
NSSDCA ID
2000-017A
SCN
26113
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Satellite", "26113"]

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Operator 2
Goddard Space Flight Center, Southwest Research Institute
Powered by 2
nickel–cadmium battery, spacecraft solar array
Significant event 2
failure, rocket launch
Country of origin 1
United States
Instance of 1
geomagnetic satellite
Launch contractor 1
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Named after 1
CodeImage
Space launch vehicle 1
Delta II
Subtypes 1
hologram
Type of orbit 1
polar orbit
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Summary

IMAGE is a geomagnetic satellite[1].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for IMAGE include CodeImage[20], a web application[21], in United States[22], founded in 2020[23].

Why It Matters

Entities named for IMAGE include CodeImage[20], a web application[21], in United States[22], founded in 2020[23].

Related Entities

Delta II geomagnetic satellite Goddard Space Flight Center hologram Southwest Research Institute United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . pluto.space.swri.edu. pluto.space.swri.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . pluto.space.swri.edu. pluto.space.swri.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . space.skyrocket.de. space.skyrocket.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . pluto.space.swri.edu. pluto.space.swri.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . pluto.space.swri.edu. pluto.space.swri.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . image.gsfc.nasa.gov. image.gsfc.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. ntrs.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . image.gsfc.nasa.gov. image.gsfc.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . nasa.gov. nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . ntrs.nasa.gov. ntrs.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Jonathan's Space Report. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . pluto.space.swri.edu. pluto.space.swri.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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