MMS Launch and Deployment

  • Released Monday, October 6, 2014
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This animation follows Magnetosphere Multiscale(MMS) Mission from launch at Kennedy Space Center through deployment and on station doing science.
The MMS mission is comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that will use Earth’s magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics of three fundamental plasma processes: magnetic reconnection, energetic particle acceleration, and turbulence.

MMS Launch and Deployment Animation

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This page was originally published on Monday, October 6, 2014.
This page was last updated on Monday, January 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM EST.

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