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Interstellar Boundary Explorer, the Glossary

Index Interstellar Boundary Explorer

Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX or Explorer 91 or SMEX-10) is a NASA satellite in Earth orbit that uses energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) to image the interaction region between the Solar System and interstellar space.[1]

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  1. 64 relations: Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, Apsis, Bit rate, Bow shock, Bucholz Army Airfield, California, Collimator, Coordinated Universal Time, Cosmic ray, David J. McComas, Dulles, Virginia, Earth, Electronvolt, Electrostatic analyzer, Energetic neutral atom, Equator, Explorers Program, Florida, Geocentric orbit, Heliosphere, High Earth orbit, Hydrazine, Hydrogen, Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, Interstellar medium, Ion, Kennedy Space Center, Kwajalein Atoll, Launch vehicle, Local Interstellar Cloud, Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Magnetosphere, Mission control center, Moon, NASA, Northrop Grumman Pegasus, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Outer space, Oxygen, Pacific Ocean, Princeton University, Principal investigator, San Antonio, Satellite bus, Solar panels on spacecraft, Solar System, Solar wind, Solid-propellant rocket, ... Expand index (14 more) »

  2. Geospace monitoring satellites
  3. Spacecraft launched by Pegasus rockets

Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere

The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM or Explorer 90) is a NASA satellite launched in 2007 to conduct a planned 26-month study of noctilucent clouds (NLCs). Interstellar Boundary Explorer and Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere are Explorers Program, Geospace monitoring satellites and spacecraft launched by Pegasus rockets.

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Apsis

An apsis is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body.

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Bit rate

In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time.

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Bow shock

In astrophysics, a bow shock occurs when the magnetosphere of an astrophysical object interacts with the nearby flowing ambient plasma such as the solar wind.

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Bucholz Army Airfield

Bucholz Army Airfield is a United States Army airfield located on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Collimator

A collimator is a device which narrows a beam of particles or waves.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Cosmic ray

Cosmic rays or astroparticles are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through space at nearly the speed of light.

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David J. McComas

David John McComas (born May 22, 1958) is an American space physicist, Vice President for, and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and leads the Space Physics at Princeton Group at He had been Assistant Vice President for Space Science and Engineering at the Southwest Research Institute, Adjoint Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), and was the founding director of the Center for Space Science and Exploration at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Dulles, Virginia

Dulles is an unincorporated area in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, and is part of the Washington metropolitan area.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Electronvolt

In physics, an electronvolt (symbol eV), also written electron-volt and electron volt, is the measure of an amount of kinetic energy gained by a single electron accelerating through an electric potential difference of one volt in vacuum.

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Electrostatic analyzer

An electrostatic analyzer or ESA is an instrument used in ion optics that employs an electric field to allow the passage of only those ions or electrons that have a given specific energy.

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Energetic neutral atom

Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) imaging is a technology used to create global images of otherwise invisible phenomena in the magnetospheres of planets and throughout the heliosphere.

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Equator

The equator is a circle of latitude that divides a spheroid, such as Earth, into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

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Explorers Program

The Explorers program is a NASA exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, geophysics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Geocentric orbit

A geocentric orbit, Earth-centered orbit, or Earth orbit involves any object orbiting Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites.

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Heliosphere

The heliosphere is the magnetosphere, astrosphere, and outermost atmospheric layer of the Sun.

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High Earth orbit

A high Earth orbit is an Earth-centered orbit with altitude at apogee higher than that of the geosynchronous orbit (35,786 km above sea level). In this article the non standard abbreviation of HEO is used for High Earth orbit.

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Hydrazine

Hydrazine is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.

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Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is a heliophysics mission that will simultaneously investigate two important and coupled science topics in the heliosphere: the acceleration of energetic particles and interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium.

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Interstellar medium

The interstellar medium (ISM) is the matter and radiation that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy.

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Ion

An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge.

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Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC, originally known as the NASA Launch Operations Center), located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) ten field centers.

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Kwajalein Atoll

Kwajalein Atoll (Marshallese: Kuwajleen) is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI).

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Launch vehicle

A launch vehicle is typically a rocket-powered vehicle designed to carry a payload (a crewed spacecraft or satellites) from Earth's surface or lower atmosphere to outer space.

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Local Interstellar Cloud

The Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC), also known as the Local Fluff, is an interstellar cloud roughly across, through which the Solar System is moving.

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Lockheed L-1011 TriStar

The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (pronounced "El-ten-eleven") is an American medium-to-long-range, wide-body trijet airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation.

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Lockheed Martin

The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace and defense manufacturer with worldwide interests.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the American southwest.

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Magnetosphere

In astronomy and planetary science, a magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field.

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Mission control center

A mission control center (MCC, sometimes called a flight control center or operations center) is a facility that manages space flights, usually from the point of launch until landing or the end of the mission.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Northrop Grumman Pegasus

Pegasus is an air-launched multistage rocket developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) and later built and launched by Northrop Grumman.

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Orbital Sciences Corporation

Orbital Sciences Corporation (commonly referred to as Orbital) was an American company specializing in the design, manufacture, and launch of small- and medium- class space and launch vehicle systems for commercial, military and other government customers.

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Outer space

Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Principal investigator

In many countries, the term principal investigator (PI) refers to the holder of an independent grant and the lead researcher for the grant project, usually in the sciences, such as a laboratory study or a clinical trial.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.

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Satellite bus

A satellite bus (or spacecraft bus) is the main body and structural component of a satellite or spacecraft, in which the payload and all scientific instruments are held.

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Solar panels on spacecraft

Spacecraft operating in the inner Solar System usually rely on the use of power electronics-managed photovoltaic solar panels to derive electricity from sunlight.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Solar wind

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the corona.

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Solid-propellant rocket

A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer).

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Southwest Research Institute

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is an independent and nonprofit applied research and development (R&D) organization.

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Spacecraft attitude control

Spacecraft attitude control is the process of controlling the orientation of a spacecraft (vehicle or satellite) with respect to an inertial frame of reference or another entity such as the celestial sphere, certain fields, and nearby objects, etc.

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Spin stabilization

In aerospace engineering, spin stabilization is a method of stabilizing a satellite or launch vehicle by means of spin, i.e. rotation along the longitudinal axis.

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Star (rocket stage)

The Star is a family of US solid-propellant rocket motors originally developed by Thiokol and used by many space propulsion and launch vehicle stages.

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Star Bus

Star Bus is a satellite bus family of Orbital ATK.

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Stargazer (aircraft)

Stargazer is a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar built in 1974, that was modified in 1994 for use by Orbital Sciences (now part of Northrop Grumman) as a mother ship for the Pegasus, a small-lift launch vehicle.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Telemetry

Telemetry is the in situ collection of measurements or other data at remote points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment (telecommunication) for monitoring.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.

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Ulysses (spacecraft)

Ulysses was a robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes.

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Vandenberg Space Force Base

Vandenberg Space Force Base, previously Vandenberg Air Force Base, is a United States Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE, observatory code C51, Explorer 92 and MIDEX-6) is a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers Program launched in December 2009. Interstellar Boundary Explorer and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer are Explorers Program.

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See also

Geospace monitoring satellites

Spacecraft launched by Pegasus rockets

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_Boundary_Explorer

Also known as 2008-051A, IBEX, IBEX spacecraft.

, Southwest Research Institute, Spacecraft attitude control, Spin stabilization, Star (rocket stage), Star Bus, Stargazer (aircraft), Sun, Telemetry, Texas, Ultraviolet, Ulysses (spacecraft), Vandenberg Space Force Base, Watt, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.