RAL Space Involvement
Ground station facility monitors and transmits ACE data to NOAA Space Weather Prediction Centre, where it is used to improve forecasts and warnings of solar storms.
Mission Objectives
To observe spaceborne energetic particles of solar, interplanetary, interstellar, and galactic origins in order to better understand the formation and evolution of the solar system. To provide solar wind information for space weather forecasting and warnings of geomagnetic storms.
Launch Date
25th August 1997
Further Project Information
ACE website
NASA
For more information please contact: RAL Space Enquiries