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General

This spacecraft was funded largely by the UK Science and Engineering Research Council. It carried a range of instruments to measure the particles and fields in the plasma environment of near-Earth space. These are listed below. The spacecraft was spin-stabilised with an axis perpendicular to the ecliptic plane and a period of approximately 5 seconds.

Overall details of the spacecraft and of the data handling are available in the following papers:

• A K Ward et al., The AMPTE UKS spacecraft, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, GE-23(3), May 1985, 192-211.
• D R Lepine et al., Data handling for the UKS spacecraft, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, GE-23(3), May 1985, 221-229.
• The AMPTE-UKS mission science plan. [TBC]