🚀Launchpad

Payload / Mission

ACE

Type
Astrophysics
Orbit
Heliocentric L1 (L1-point)

The objective of the ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) is to collect observations of particles of solar, interplanetary, interstellar, and galactic origins, spanning the energy range from that of keV.solar wind ions to galactic cosmic ray nuclei up to 600 MeV/nucleon.