Equator-S
In conjunction with ISTP, Germany plans to launch the 240-kg Equator-S spacecraft on a mission to measure atomic particles and electromagnetic fields in a nearly equatorial plane. After insertion into a GTO in 1997 as an Ariane piggyback payload, Equator-S will use a solid propellant motor to raise its apogee to approximately 70,000 km. The Max Planck Institute will manage the mission which will also carry ESA and US scientific instruments (Reference 49).
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