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Designator id: 1999-026A

Description of TERRIERS Satellite:

The Tomographic Experiment using Radiative Recombinative Ionospheric EUV and Radio Sources (TERRIERS) project is the second satellite in NASA's Student Explorer Demonstration Initiative (STEDI) program. STEDI, managed for NASA by USRA, is a pilot program to demonstrate that high-quality space science can be carried out with small, low-cost (<$4.4 Million) free-flying satellites on a time scale of two years from go-ahead to launch.

TERRIERS is a collaboration between the Center for Space Physics at Boston University, AeroAstro Inc. (satellite and ground station), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, the Naval Research Laboratory, MIT's Haystack Observatory, Phillips Laboratory and Cleveland Heights High School. TERRIERS' primary goal is to demonstrate meridional 2-D (latitude-altitude) and global 3D imaging of the ionospheric electron density and thermospheric photo-emission profiles using EUV emissions and tomographic techniques. A secondary goal is the study of several ionospheric and thermospheric phenomena and a tertiary goal is to test the utility of a new technique for long term solar EUV irradiance measurements (GISSMO).

The TERRIERS spacecraft is based on the High energy transient Experiment (HETE) spacecraft. The spacecraft is highly autonomous. After initial orbit insertion, it will place itself in the safe orbital configuration and contact the ground station to begin mission operation. Science operations will be conducted from Boston University through a single ground station.

Instrumentation consists of five Tomographic EUV spectrographs (TESS) for nightglow and dayglow observations (80-140 nm,1-2 nm resolution), the Gas Ionization Solar Spectral Monitor (GISSMO) measuring solar EUV with high sensitivity over long time periods, two photometers for 630 nm night airglow, a dual-frequency radio beacon for electron content measurements.

Note added November 16, 1999: Due to attitude control problems further detailed in the Boston University TERRIERS web page, the spacecraft battery power was quickly expended and no good data have been acquired. As of this writing, recovery efforts continue.


Technical data:

Launch Date: 1999-05-18
Launch Vehicle: Pegasus
Launch Site: Vandenberg AFB, United States
Mass: 120.0 kg
Nominal Power: 16.0 W
Funding Agencies:

NASA-Office of Space Science (United States)

Disciplines:

Solar Physics
Space Physics

Source: Nasa

Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 25735U 99026A   12339.11807423  .00002368  00000-0  87947-4 0  7493
2 25735 097.0844 169.6547 0005198 243.7649 116.3053 15.28475791751856

Last TLE update on :2012-12-04

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