2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent
TIMED
Thermosphere-ionosphere-mesosphere energetics mission.
Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 7 Dec 2001
- Lead / partner
- United States
- Target
- Earth orbit
- Category
- Upper-atmosphere science
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- Delta II 7920-10
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- Geocentric orbit
- Duration
- Planned: 2 years Elapsed:
Why it happened
TIMED flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of United States's work toward earth orbit. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Thermosphere-ionosphere-mesosphere energetics mission.
Results
Thermosphere-ionosphere-mesosphere energetics mission.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog