PPT Slide
Mission Operations
- Launch February 15, 2000 at 22:02:15 UTC = 14:02:15 PST
- 41 Days IOC and antenna deployment period
- 2 year science mission operations
Orbit
- Inclination 90 degrees
- Perigee 1000 km (initially)
- Apogee target altitude 7.2 Earth Radii = 45,923 km
- Orbit Period 14.25 hours
- Initial argument of perigee 320 deg., precesses 79.95 deg. in 2 years
- Ascending node at 180 deg. Right Ascension, constant.
- Precession of perigee and local time determine location of IMAGE in magnetosphere