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.
MMS SMART at SouthWest Research Institute
(http://mms.space.swri.edu)
SouthWest Research Institute provides a science summary on the SMART investigation, MMS mission information and areas of science interest, MMS mission obit and spacecraft formation, SMART team roster, and more.
MMS Educational Outreach at Rice Univ.
(http://mms.rice.edu/mms/) Rice University is developing educational materials focusing on science related to the MMS mission. Visit their site for for student activities, teaching materials, multimedia, and more. For more information, contact:
Rice Space Institute, MS108 Rice University,
6100 Main Street, Herman Brown Building Room 202
Houston, TX 7705-1892
Tel: 731-348-4939
MMS at NASA
(http://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html)
Overview of MMS as a mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes Program within the Heliosphysics division. Offers weekly mission status reports.
Get information on preparations for a state-of-the-art environmentally friendly facility where engineers and scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will assemble and integrate the MMS spacecraft.
