RBSP & SDO: Newest Heliophysics Missions
The newest members of NASA's Heliophysics fleet are the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), launched February 11, 2010, and the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), launched August 23, 2012.
Revision (November 9, 2012): The RBSP mission has been renamed the Van Allen Probes. NASA Press Release.
Orbits of SDO and RBSP
Orbit of SDO only. Added November 12, 2013
Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (USRA)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, September 20, 2012.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:52 PM EDT.
Missions
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SSCweb ephemerides (SSCweb)
ID: 538Satellite ephemerides
This dataset can be found at: http://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov
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DE421 (JPL DE421)
ID: 752Planetary ephemerides
This dataset can be found at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?ephemerides#planets
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STK Ephemeris (Satellite ToolKit Ephemeris)
ID: 754Satellite ephemerides
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