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    The Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX or Explorer 68) was a NASA solar and magnetospheric observatory and was the first spacecraft...
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    to the heliosphere include: Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Solar Dynamics Observatory STEREO...
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    The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) was a NASA satellite that observed the time variation of astronomical X-ray sources, named after physicist Bruno...
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    Composition Explorer (ACE or Explorer 71) is a NASA Explorer program satellite and space exploration mission to study matter comprising energetic particles from...
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    Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI), launched February 2002, completed – Sun observing, Earth satellite Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer...
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    Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE or Explorer 67) was a NASA space telescope for ultraviolet astronomy. EUVE was a part of NASA's Explorer spacecraft series...
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    protons and alpha particles with kinetic energy between 0.5 and 10 keV. The composition of the solar wind plasma also includes a mixture of particle species...
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    energetic particles and interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium. These science topics are coupled because particles accelerated...
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  • NASA. The Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX or Explorer 68) was a NASA solar and magnetospheric observatory and was the first...
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    Dynamics Explorer 1 (DE-1 or Explorer 62) was a NASA high-altitude mission, launched on 3 August 1981, and terminated on 28 February 1991. It consisted...
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    emanating from the magnetic poles of neutron stars can be described as magnetospheric radiation, in reference to the magnetosphere of the neutron star. It...
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    Callisto (moon) (category Solar System)
    Jupiter, after Ganymede. In the Solar System it is the third-largest moon after Ganymede and Saturn's largest moon Titan, and nearly as large as the smallest...
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    Pioneer 10 (category Spacecraft escaping the Solar System)
    orbiter Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Jupiter orbiter Europa Clipper, Jupiter orbiter List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System List of missions...
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    field and its interaction with the solar wind. Characterize the geometry and time variability of the magnetospheric field. Detect wave-particle interactions...
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  • List of heliophysics missions (category Solar System)
    supporting heliophysics, including solar observatory missions, solar orbiters, and spacecraft studying the solar wind. List of solar telescopes Heliophysics Research...
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    Research Council of Canada provided instrumentation and test equipment for the COsmic ray and Solar Particle INvestigation (COSPIN) on the Ulysses spacecraft...
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    McKenna-Lawlor, Susan M. P. (2003). Essential Spaceflight Dynamics and Magnetospherics. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic. pp. 146–147. ISBN 0-306-48027-1...
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  • SME – (spacecraft) Solar Mesosphere Explorer, a spacecraft used to study the Earth's ozone layer SMEX – (spacecraft) SMall EXplorers, the name of a series...
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    Exploration of Io (category Discovery and exploration of the Solar System)
    system in the 2020s. ESA launched the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (Juice) to explore Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto in 2023, while NASA launched the Europa Clipper...
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  • discovered “anomalous plasma signatures” in the Io torus of Jupiter's magnetosphere. Using the data from the spacecraft Galileo's energetic particle detector...
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    internal (related to the presence of superfluids or turbulence) and external (due to magnetospheric activity) torques in a pulsar. The radiation from pulsars...
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