Van Allen Probes
Success
AUG 30201208:05:27 UTCWithin weeks of reaching orbit, the pair - originally designated the Radiation Belt Storm Probes - detected a temporary third radiation belt: a narrow ring of energetic electrons that formed after a solar storm and persisted for about a month before an interplanetary shock dispersed it.
Van Allen Probe B ceased operations on 19 July 2019; Van Allen Probe A was deactivated on 18 October 2019.
LIFTOFF
AUG 30 201208:05:27 UTC
Success
launched from SLC-41 Canaveral
aboard Atlas V 401 into HEO
Payloads · 2
- 01
Van Allen Probe A (RBSP-A)
Magnetospheric research
- 02
Van Allen Probe B (RBSP-B)
Magnetospheric research