MMS-FIELDS Gallery

FIELDS on MMS

MMS Quick Facts
• Launched 3/12/2015
• Solving Magnetospheric
    Acceleration,
    Reconnection, and
    Turbulence (SMART)
    is the MMS Science
    Investigation
• Southwest Research
    Institute (SWRI)
    is leading the
    multi-institutional
    science investigation.
    The team...
• Mission duration:
    2yrs. 6mos.
• Four spacecraft will fly
    in tetrahedral formation
    through regions of
    the magnetosphere,
    each collecting data
    with identical suites
    of instrumentation.

Related Links
   - NASA MMS status report
   - MMS at SWRI (SMART lead)
   - MMS at Rice (Education)
   - MMS at LASP (Sys.Ops.)

Photo Gallery

MMS Spacecraft and Payload

Watch the Youtube video
"3 Days in 1 Minute,"showing activities of stacking of the 4 MMS spacecraft.

David Rau (UNH), third from left with GSFC and SwRI colleagues after the final removal of the red tag covers from the stack of MMS observatories in Feb. 2015.

EDI cover removed, encapsulation process beginning.

Fairing with MMS logo

MMS Spacecraft

Spacececraft Stack

MMS Stack

Instr. Suite Deck with subset of FIELDS hdwre

MMS Payload

FIELDS Development

ADP Boom with canister MLI installed. Red GSE cover will be removed when the ADP Receiving Element is attached later in the process.

ADP Boom serial number 02 mounted in the –Z position on MMS observatory #1.

Extensible Boom (LASP/ATK Aerospace Systems) being raised into the –Z position on the first MMS observatory.

AFG sensor mounted tothe tip of the magnetometer boom.

UNH and IWF EDI team members upon completion of assembly of second flight EDU-GDI unit in UNH cleanroom.

James Mack, LASP M.E., installing qual. model ADP boom & receiving element on spacecraft deck at Goddard (25 Sep 2012)

The coilable ADP Boom deploys the ADP Receiving Element sensor 12.4 meters along the spin axis. When both ADP Booms and Receiving Elements are deployed, tip to tip distance is 30.2 meters (99 ft.).