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RBSP Instrument Design
RBSP Spacecraft
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Additional Information

Animations of RBSP
   launch vehicle separation,
   deployment of solar arrays,
   orbits, and more. . .

RBSP classroom links
   activities, games. . .

 

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RBSP Launch

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Launch: Aug. 30, 2012
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Awaiting launch: Aug 24, 2012.

Launch Preparations

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Arm installation Final blanket close out Team in Florida
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August 10, 2012: RBSP Spacecraft and fairing make a stop at the VAB, then on to the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Cape Canaveral.
Photos courtesy of NASA-KSC

ECT on RBSP

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RBSP ECT on RBSP Research Instruments
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ECT Instrument Design

MagEIS HOPE REPT
Magnetic Electron Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS) Helium Oxygen Proton Electron (HOPE) Relativistic Electron
Proton Telescope (REPT)
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MagEIS HOPE in calibration chamber REPT flight model

RBSP Spacecraft

Artist's renderings based on mission and spacecraft details.
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RBSP after separation
from launch vehicle
RBSP array deployment
RBSP with stacer booms deployed
LRO leaving Astrotech orbiting earth  
The probes will orbit
through inner & outer radiation belts
Elliptical orbits will range in altitude from 373mi. to 23,000 mi.

Artist's renderings courtesy of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.


Visualization

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Visualization of actual RBSP TLEs (predicted). Field lines are the drift shell connected to one GPS satellite.


Visualization courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory.


RBSP and ECT Logos

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Artist's rendering of
RBSP spacecraft.

The RBSP-ECT logo

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