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The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947 with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947.
IMAGE (Imager for Magnetopause to Aurora Global Exploration) uses neutral atom, ultraviolet, and radio imaging techniques to identify the dominant mechanisms for injecting plasma into the magnetosphere on substorm and magnetic storm time scales, determine the directly driven response of the magnetosphere to solar wind changes; and, discover how and where magnetospheric plasmas are energized, transported, and subsequently lost during substorms and magnetic storms.
Height 38.40 Meters
Max Stages 4
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 2500 kN
Diameter 2.44 Meters
Mass To LEO 0 kg
Liftoff Mass 155 Tonnes
Launch Success 3
Consecutive Success 3
Maiden Flight 1998-10-24
Launch Failures 0