Wind
NASA · launched 1994
Measuring the solar wind since 1994.
Right now · as of
Sun–Earth L1
1.53 million km from Earth; a signal takes 5.1 s
147 million km from the Sun, moving at 0.29 km/s relative to Earth
Open in 3DThe flight
November 1, 1994
Launched on Delta II 7925-10 from Cape Canaveral SLC-17B
July 30, 1995
Flies past Moon, 26,022 km away
November 26, 1995
Flies past Moon, 34,199 km away
January 16, 1996
Flies past Moon, 34,998 km away
August 16, 1996
Flies past Moon, 29,158 km away
October 25, 1997
Flies past Moon, 36,380 km away
June 29, 1998
Flies past Moon, 27,678 km away
October 23, 1998
Flies past Moon, 25,034 km away
April 15, 1999
Flies past Moon, 21,007 km away
October 4, 1999
Flies past Moon, 25,927 km away
April 7, 2000
Flies past Moon, 33,049 km away
November 3, 2002
Flies past Moon, 82,938 km away
November 30, 2002
Flies past Moon, 41,790 km away
From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.
Wind (spacecraft)
NASA probe to study solar wind, at L1 since 1995
The Global Geospace Science (GGS) Wind satellite is a NASA science spacecraft designed to study radio waves and plasma that occur in the solar wind and in the Earth's magnetosphere. It was launched on 1 November 1994, at 09:31:00 UTC, from launch pad LC-17B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) on Merritt Island, Florida, aboard a McDonnell Douglas Delta II 7925-10 rocket.
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Facts
- What it is
- Space probe
- Agency
- NASA
- Launched
- November 1, 1994
- Rocket
- Delta II 7925-10
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SLC-17B
- International designator
- 1994-071A
- 3D model
- NASA/Christopher R. Meaney