Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS)
The Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) is a NASA unmanned space mission to study the Earth's magnetosphere, using four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. It is designed to gather information about the microphysics of magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and turbulence, processes that occur in many astrophysical plasmas.
Payloads: 4
Total Mass: 5,440.0 kg
Highly Elliptical Orbit
Location
SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
2015
12th orbital launch attempt
United Launch Alliance
94th mission
3rd mission of 2015
93rd successful mission
89th consecutive successful mission
Atlas V
53rd mission
2nd mission of 2015
52nd successful mission
43rd consecutive successful mission