Data Analysis PassBands TRACE & MDI Summary Diagram

TRACE is designed to be launched on a GSFC Small Explorer (SMEX) spacecraft with a Pegasus XL lauch vehicle into a Sun-synchronous orbit, allowing continuous observing for 8 months of the baseline 1-year mission. For the first time, a U.S. solar research satellite will observe the Sun continuously without occultation by the earth for part of every orbit.

Photos of TRACE Instrument


 

 

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(Lockheed Martin Missile & Space)

(The Lockheed Martin
Solar and Astrophysics Labs)

  Dr. Neal Hurlburt
email: hurlburt@lmsal.com