Van Allen Probes Stories
Ten Highlights From NASA’s Van Allen Probes Mission
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After seven years of operations, and upon finally running out of propellant, the second of the twin Van Allen Probes spacecraft will be retired on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Spacecraft A of the Van Allen Probes mission will be shut…
Article5 years ago
First of Two Van Allen Probes Spacecraft Ceases Operations
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On July 19, 2019, at 1:27 p.m. EDT, mission operators sent a shutdown command to one of two Van Allen Probes spacecraft, known as spacecraft B, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, or APL, in Laurel, Maryland. As…
Article5 years ago
NASA’s Van Allen Probes Begin Final Phase of Exploration in Earth’s Radiation Belts
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Two tough, resilient, NASA spacecraft have been orbiting Earth for the past six and a half years, flying repeatedly through a hazardous zone of charged particles around our planet called the Van Allen radiation belts. The twin Van Allen Probes,…
Article6 years ago