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WIND SPACECRAFT

Comprehensive Solar Wind Laboratory for Long-Term Solar Wind Measurements

Wind is a spin stabilized spacecraft launched in November 1, 1994 and placed in a halo orbit around the L1 Lagrange point, more than 200 Re upstream of Earth to observe the unperturbed solar wind that is about to impact the magnetosphere of Earth. Wind, together with Geotail, Polar, SoHO and Cluster, constitute a cooperative scientific satellite project designated the International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) program that aims at gaining improved understanding of the physics of solar terrestrial relations.

The primary science objectives of the Wind mission are:

• Provide complete plasma, energetic particle and magnetic field for magnetospheric and ionospheric studies.
• Investigate basic plasma processes occurring in the near-Earth solar wind.
• Provide baseline, 1 AU, ecliptic plane observations for inner and outer heliospheric missions.

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Science Highlight: A recent publication using data from the Wind spacecraft was featured on NASA's homepage at NASA’s Wind Mission Encounters ‘SLAMS’ Waves

Science Highlight: A recent publication using data from the Wind spacecraft was highlighted as a Physical Review Letters spotlight article and a NASA Feature Article at Solar Wind Energy Source Discovered

Science Highlight: A recent publication using data from the Wind spacecraft was featured on NASA's homepage at Riding the Plasma Wave

New SWE Electron and EPACT Data Sets: Newly procesed Wind SWE electron and EPACT data sets are available on the Data section of this page. The SWE electron data sets ate also availble from CDAWeb.

2010 Senior Review Proposal: The 2010 Wind Senior Review proposal has been submitted. It can be downloaded from the following link:

2010 Wind Senior Review Proposal

Earlier proposals and the results can be found at the following links:

2008 Wind Senior Review Proposal

2008 Wind Mission Archive Plan

Final Report from the 2008 Senior Review

Links:

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