Geotail
Geotail will explore the earth's geomagnetic tail region, both the
middle tail and the distant tail. Its orbit will carry it as close as
8 Re, to as far as 220 Re. It was launched in July 1992. The Space
Sciences Lab has an electric field experiment on board.
Information on Geotail through GSFC-SpaceLink
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