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East Meets West on "Double Star", a Joint Mission to Explore Earth's Magnetic Field

9 July 2001

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This mission consists of two satellites, the equatorial satellite DSP-E, following a 550 x 60 000 km orbit, inclined at 28.5 degrees to the equator and the polar satellite DSP-P, following a 350 x 25 000 km orbit inclined at 90 degrees to the equator.

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A Double Star satellite in its launch configuration. courtesy: Chinese National Space Administration

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Orbit of Double Star and Cluster during the magnetotail crossings. The Earth is the circle in the centre of the diagram, blue lines are magnetic field lines.