Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Program
NASA’s active Carruthers Geocorona Observatory studies Earth’s exosphere—the ultraviolet geocorona at the outermost edge of the atmosphere—from the Sun–Earth L1 point. Launched on 24 September 2025, the observatory provides repeated global views of the geocorona and its response to space weather during a two-year primary science mission.
Identity
- Aliases
- Carruthers Geocorona ObservatoryCarruthersGlobal Lyman-alpha Imager of the Dynamic ExosphereGLIDECarruthers Mission
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Program
- Status
- active
- Types
- scienceresearchoperations
Details
- Description
- NASA’s active Carruthers Geocorona Observatory studies Earth’s exosphere—the ultraviolet geocorona at the outermost edge of the atmosphere—from the Sun–Earth L1 point. Launched on 24 September 2025, the observatory provides repeated global views of the geocorona and its response to space weather during a two-year primary science mission.
- Leads
- Participants
- -
- Start Date
- 2025-09-24
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 19:32:57 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 23, 2026 at 16:04:00 UTC
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- Official Urls
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/2026/03/02/nasas-carruthers-geocorona-observatory-begins-primary-science-mission/https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/carruthers-geocorona-observatory/2026/01/12/nasas-carruthers-geocorona-observatory-reaches-target-orbit/https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-noaa-launch-three-spacecraft-to-map-suns-influence-across-space/