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    • Ulsysses launches from Cape Canaveral October 6, 1990

    The Ulysses satillite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florda on October 6, 1990. The purpouse of the cratf was to explore the polar regions of the sun. This spacecraft was a joint venture between NASA and the ESA (European Space Agency). Ulysses was used to explore the Sun's atmosphere over the polar regions in 1994 and in 1995. Ulysses had completed its second orbit around the sun in December2001. For more detailed information on Ulysses log on to the following site. Space Links-Cal Tech

    WIND Launches from Cape Canaveral November 1, 1994

    The WIND spacecraft was launched from Cape canaveral on a Delta II rocket on November 1, 1994. This craft was built to study the behavior of solar wind and how the earth's atmosphere will respond to it. This was one of the first spacecrafts to have instuments from different countries. The countries sharing the craft are the French, the Americans and the Russians. For more infomation on this craft visit this site:Fact Sheet

    Instrumentation

  • Optical Sensors
    UV
    X-Ray
    White Light
    Gamma Rays
  • Optical Spectrum
    Micro Rays, Visible Rays, UV Rays, EUV Rays, X-Ray, and Gamma Rays
  • Particle Detectors
    Low energy charged particles are detected using electric and magnetic fields.
  • Solar Wind Spectrometer
    The Solar Wind Spectrometer (S-035-solar wind Spectrometer) is used to measure speed, direction and strength of solar wind protons and electrons, which arrive on the moon soil. The particles were registered by seven sensors pointing into different directions. This expierement was accomplished with the Apollo 12 and 15.
  • Some Instruments Used for Measuring
  • CRIS
    The Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS) is used to determine exactly what material is accelerated by shock waves. These shock waves come from supernova explosions. CRIS is a major step in ascertaining the isotopic composition of the cosmic rays. The CRIS is also a major step in determining thier orgin.
  • CRIS Si Stack Detector
    The CRIS Si Stack Detector consist of two seperate instruments. These two seperate instruments are the singl and double grooved stack detectors. Both of the detectors have active areas. The single groove detector have only one active area (inside groove). The double groove detectors have two active areas. The active areas are in the inner groove and between grooves. The smaller active area is used as a guard, to identify events having bad or inconsistant gepmetries.
  • SIS
    The Solar Isotope Spectrometer (SIS) is designed to provide high resolution measurements of isotopic composition of energetic nuclei from Helium to Nitrogen. SIS will measure the isotopic composition of the solar corona, while during solar quiet times SIS will measure the isotopes pf low-energy Galactic cosmic rays. SIS also measures the compostion of the anomalous cosmic rays which are thought to originatein the nearby interstellar medium.

    This page was reasearched and compiled by Akeem (AAA) and Mike