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Advanced Composition Explorer
Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) is an Explorer satellite mission to study matter in situ, comprising energetic particles from the solar wind, the interplanetary medium, and other sources. It was launched August 25 1997 and is currently operating in a Halo orbit close to the L1 Lagrange point (which lies between the Sun and the Earth at a distance of some 1.
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