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What does ACE stand for?

Advanced Composition Explorer


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Dr Richard Mewaldt of the California Institute of Technology, a co-investigator on Nasa's Advanced Composition Explorer spacecraft, refers to "the most intense burst of solar radiation in five decades accompanied by a large solar flare shaking space weather theory" and states that "this flare produced the largest solar radiation signal on the ground in nearly 50 years.
A major contribution to forecasting comes from a 3-foot-tall satellite named ACE, or the Advanced Composition Explorer, which has been in orbit since 1997, capturing and analyzing the many solar particles streaming past.
One key player will be NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer spacecraft, launched in August 1997, which stands guard nearly a million miles from Earth and can detect a rain of solar particles an hour before they reach our planet.

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