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  <Observatory>
    <ResourceID>spase://CNES/Observatory/CDPP-AMDA/Geotail</ResourceID>
    <ResourceHeader>
      <ResourceName>Geotail</ResourceName>
      <AlternateName>Geomagnetic Tail Lab</AlternateName>
      <AlternateName>1992-044A</AlternateName>
      <AlternateName>GTL</AlternateName>
      <AlternateName>ISTP/Geotail</AlternateName>
      <AlternateName>GGS/Geotail</AlternateName>      
      <ReleaseDate>2016-08-05T18:19:18Z</ReleaseDate>
      <Description>The GEOTAIL mission is a collaborative project undertaken by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Geotail spacecraft was designed and built by ISAS and was launched on July 24, 1992. After fulfilling Its original objective of studying the dynamics of the Earth's magnetotail over a wide range of distance, extending from the near-Earth region (8 Earth radii (Re) from the Earth) to the distant tail (about 200 Re) its orbit was changed. Since February 1995 Geotail has been in an elliptical 9 by 30 Re orbit where it has provided data on most aspects of the solar wind interaction with the magnetosphere.           
      </Description>
      <Contact>
        <PersonID>spase://SMWG/Person/Guan.Le</PersonID>
        <Role>ProjectScientist</Role>
      </Contact>
      <Contact>
        <PersonID>spase://SMWG/Person/Masaki.Fujimoto</PersonID>
        <Role>ProjectScientist</Role>
      </Contact>
      <Contact>
        <PersonID>spase://CNES/Person/A.Nishida</PersonID>
        <Role>ProjectScientist</Role>
      </Contact>
      <Contact>
        <PersonID>spase://CNES/Person/D.Fairfield</PersonID>
        <Role>ProjectScientist</Role>
      </Contact>
      <InformationURL>
        <Name>Geotail home page at ISAS</Name>
        <URL>http://www.stp.isas.jaxa.jp/geotail/</URL>
        <Description>Information about the Geotail mission</Description>
      </InformationURL>
      <InformationURL>
        <Name>NSSDC's Master Catalog</Name>
        <URL>http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1992-044A</URL>
        <Description>Information about the Geotail mission</Description>
      </InformationURL>
    </ResourceHeader>
    <Location>
      <ObservatoryRegion>Earth.Magnetosphere</ObservatoryRegion>
      <ObservatoryRegion>Earth.Magnetosphere.Magnetotail</ObservatoryRegion>
      <ObservatoryRegion>Heliosphere.NearEarth</ObservatoryRegion>
    </Location>
    <OperatingSpan> 
      <StartDate>1992-07-24T00:00:00</StartDate>
      <!--<StopDate>2014-12-16T00:00:00</StopDate>-->
      <Note>Distant tail campaign, various orbits between 8 and 210 Re: August 1992 - October 1994</Note>  
    </OperatingSpan>  
  </Observatory>
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