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Jul. 07, 1984 - Kennedy Space Center, Fla. - British engineers conduct tests on the United Kingdom Subsatellite, part of the three-spacecraft international Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracar Explorer (AMPTE) mission scheduled for launch on August 9 aboard a single Delta rock. The 172-pound UKS contains a comprehensive set of plasma measuring instruments to record the effects of chemical clouds released by the West German build Ion Release Modula. The other AMPTE spacecraft - the Charged Composition Explorer (United States) - will operate far below, from inside the Earth's magnetosphere, where it will track the ionized clouds as it is swept along by the solar wind. With the CCE studing this activity from below, and the IRM and UKS studying it from above, scientists expect to acquire valuable new data on exactly how the solar wind interacts with the Earth's magnetic fields
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