IMP In Space

 

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IMP-8

IMP Charged Particle Measurement Experiment

at Fundamental Technologies

 

IMP Reference Materials, Handbooks, and Notes

 

 

S1P Documents:

 

 

Experimenters' and Programmers' Notes and Programmatics

 

 

Additional IMP Information:

 

 

 

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Updated 8/8/19, Cameron Crane

QUICK FACTS

Mission Duration: Although only 10 years were originally expected for the lifetime of the IMP-8 spacecraft, it is still operational after 45+ years.

Destination: The IMP-8 spacecraft spends roughly half of its 12-day orbit in solar winds, with the other half spent studying the magnetosphere and magnetosheath of Earth.

Orbit: The IMP-8 spacecraft orbits in a geocentric elliptical orbit with an inclination varying from 0 to 55 degrees.