Active · Active
NASA's active Advanced Composition Explorer studies solar, interplanetary, interstellar, and galactic energetic particles from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- Delta 7920-8 (no. D247)
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida / Launch Complex 17A
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Heliophysics
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
ACE · Spacecraft
Destinations: Sun
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- ACE: Predicted · August 26, 1997 to November 22, 2026
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 4, 2026
- ACE - NASA Science — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- ACE original spacecraft description — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- ACE native corrected attitude and orbit reports — OTHEREphemeris · Supports: mission claims
- ACE Science Center attitude and orbit daily positions and velocities — OTHEREphemeris · Supports: mission claims
- ACE definitive orbit daily values, AC_OR_DEF — NASAEphemeris · Supports: mission claims
- ACE Science Center attitude and orbit data methods — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- ACE native HDF ancillary field definitions — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- ACE original orbit and clock report examples — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- ACE clock calibration and transmission-delay correction — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- ACE sun-pulse timing and spacecraft spin axes — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- ACE spacecraft original engineering paper — OTHERPaper · Supports: mission claims
- ACE maneuver and high-nutation log through2005 — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- ACE archive correction notice — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- ACE - NASA Science mission page — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Our Sun: Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context