Interball Tail


Name of the satellite Interball Tail
Other name(s) Interball 1
23632
COSPAR designation 95-039A
Project(s) Manager(s) of the satellite Lev Zelenyi
Institute of the project(s) manager(s) RKA
Country or Space Agency RUS
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://www.iki.rssi.ru/tail
http://sads.cnes.fr:8010/guide/interball/
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1995-039A
Launch date (dd-mm-yyyy) 03-08-1995
Termination date (dd-mm-yyyy) *****
Lifetime of the satellite (month) *****
Type of the orbits HEO
(Initial) Perigee (km) 776
(Initial) Apogee (km / Re) 192000 / 30.1
Orbital period (min / hour) 91 / 1.5
Spin rate (rpm) 0.5
Eccentricity ?????
Inclination (°) 62.8
Observed regions High altitude cusp and subsolar magnetopause regions on the dayside
and the neutral sheet in the nightside tail.
Observed waves *****
Name of the first experiment Measurements of Electric Field in Range 0 to 250kHz (OPERA)
Name of the second experiment Multicomponent Investigations of Fluctuations of Magnetic Fields (MIF-M)
Name of the third experiment Tri-axial Fluxgate Magnetometer (FGM-I)
Name of the fourth experiment Fluxgate DC Magnetometer (FM-3I)