Arcad Project

The main scientific objectives of the Soviet-French ARCAD-3 Project on the AUREOL-3 near-Earth satellite (1981-1986) were to study magnetospheric plasma processes including measurements of auroral particles, electromagnetic fields, thermal plasma variations, auroral field-aligned currents and related auroral emissions. The satellite measurements were often coordinated with ground-based measurements of magnetospheric phenomena, which helped in the analysis of the time/space development of the observed phenomena.

SATELLITE NAME: AUREOL-3 (AURora and EOLe)
SATELLITE TYPE:

LAUNCH : September 21, 1981, Plesetsk, Russia.
ORBIT : ha = 2012 km, hp = 408 km, i = 82.5 degrees.
AIM : Magnetosphere-ionosphere research.

PROJECT SCIENTIST: Yuri I.Galperin, Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Sciences.
PROJECT SCIENTIST: Henri Reme, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales des Rayonnements (CESR), Toulouse, France;

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