Primary Spacecraft of ISTP
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Geotail
Launched on 24 July 1992 by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and NASA, the satellite has roamed millions of miles in the tail of the magnetosphere to see how the solar wind and Earth interact downstream...
Wind
Launched on 1 November 1994 by NASA, the satellite spends most of its time flying into the solar wind (on the sunny side of Earth) in order to decipher its physical and chemical properties...
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Launched on 2 December 1995 by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, the satellite lives in a stationary orbit between the Sun and Earth where it studies the structure of the Sun, its atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind...
Polar
Launched on 24 February 1996 by NASA, the satellite makes daily passes over Earth's north and south poles in order to study the energy and particles flowing into and out of the magnetosphere and producing the aurora...
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