Mission Name IMEX: Inner Magnetospheric EXplorer LASP Instruments Principal Investigator: John Wygant (U. Minnesota) Destination Van Allen Belts Launch Date Under Review Launch Location Under review Launch Vehicle Titan IV Mission Duration   Mission Description/ LASP involvement   LASP Divisions Involved Science LASP Mission Web Page http://lasp.colorado.edu/stp/imex/imex_main.html Official Mission Web Page

The Inner Magnetosphere Explorer (IMEX), will study the response of Earth's Van Allen radiation belts to variations in the solar wind. The energetic charged particles (mainly protons and electrons) that comprise Earth's trapped radiation zones are potentially hazardous to both astronauts and satellite systems. IMEX will be launched into a 217-mile by 21,748-mile (350-kilometer by 35,000-kilometer) elliptical orbit around Earth with instruments to measure on a regular basis the populations of energetic particles and related magnetic and electric fields throughout the radiation belts.

(taken from http://lasp.colorado.edu/stp/imex/imex_main.html)

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