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Appendix
Pages 14-18

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... Upon arrival at Saturn in 2004, it will deploy the ESA's APPENDIX Huygens Titan atmospheric probe and will conduct complex, multidisciplinary observations of the planet's atmosphere, rings, magnetosphere, and satellites. Cluster: A four-spacecraft ESA mission built in collaboration with NASA that was lost during an aborted launch attempt of the Ariane-5.
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... HESI: High-energy solar imager, a concept for a mission envisioned as a possible solar-terrestrial probe focused on the study of solar flares IMAGE: The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration is a MIDEX-class mission selected by NASA in 1996 that will provide the first-ever global images of key regions of Earth's magnetosphere as it responds to variations in the solar wind. IMAGE will use three different experimental techniques to carry out its mission: radio sounding, ultraviolet imaging, and neutral atom imaging (neutral atom imagers detect neutral atoms created from magnetospheric ions via the process of charge exchange)
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... SAMPEX: Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer, the first of NASA's SMEX missions. SAMPEX observations are providing information on the cosmic abundances of elements and their isotopes, the composition of the local intersteller gas, the solar composition and the mechanisms responsible for solar atmospheric heating, and electron energy injection into the Earth's upper atmosphere.
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... Part of the STEDI program, SNOE is a small scientific spacecraft designed for launch on an ultralight expendable launch vehicle. The scientific goals of SNOE include (1)
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... Wind: A spacecraft focused on the measurement of the solar wind upstream of Earth's magnetosphere, designed to provide information on the prevailing interplanetary conditions during the ISTP program. Wind and Polar are part of the GGS program, NASA's contribution to ISTP.
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