Solar Terrestrial Physics

Launched satellite projects at IRF-K

Launched satellite projects of IRF-K

The Kiruna Division of The Swedish Institute of Space Physics has been involved in the following satellite projects:

Mission	Year	Destination	Mission objectives	IRF instrument	External Links	Status
Venus Express	2005	Venus	Answer fundamental questions about the geology, atmosphere and surface environment	ASPERA-4	ESA Wikipedia	Delivering data
SMART-1	2003	Moon	Testing solar-electric propulsion and other deep-space technologies, and making lunar scientific investigations	D-CIXS	ESA Wikipedia
Double Star (TC-2)	2004	Earth orbit	Study the Earth's plasma environment from a polar orbit	NUADU	ESA	Delivering data
Rosetta	2004	Comet	Study the origin of comets, the relationship between cometary and interstellar material and its implications	ICA, LAP	ESA
Mars Express	2003	Mars	Answer fundamental questions about the geology, atmosphere, surface environment, history of water and potential for life	ASPERA-3 [data]	ESA Wikipedia	Delivering data
Munin	2000	Earth orbit	Technical development of spacecraft for space weather application	MEDUSA, DINA [data]
Cluster-II	2000 2000
Astrid-2	1999	Earth orbit	Auroral studies	MEDUSA, PIA
Nozomi (Planet-B)	1998	Mars	Studies of near-Mars space environment	IMI	ISAS	Never reached Mars
Mars-96	1996	Mars	Comprehensive studies of near-Mars environment, surface of Mars and interplanetary medium	ASPERA-C		Failed to reach Earth escape velocity
Cluster	1996					Rocket exploded
Interball -2 Interball -1	1996 1995	Earth orbit	Study mechanisms responsible for the transport of solar-wind energy to the Earth's magnetosphere	PROMISC-3
Astrid	1995	Earth orbit		EMIL, PIPPI, MIO
Freja	1992	Earth orbit	Study of interaction between magnetospheric plasma and topside atmosphere/ionosphere	F3H [data]
Ulysses	1990	Sun	Exploration of Solar wind	EPAC	ESA
Phobos-1 Phobos-2	1988	Mars	Study the Sun, Mars and Phobos	ASPERA	IKI
Viking	1986		Auroral studies	V-3 [data]
Giotto	1985	Comet Halley
Prognoz-8 Prognoz-7	1980 1979	Earth orbit	High-latitude magnetosphere and magnetosheath studies	PROMICS-1 PROMICS-2	IKI NASA
Geos 2 Geos 1	1977 1976	Earth orbit
Esro 4 Esro 1b Esro 1a	1972 1969 1968	Earth orbit