ACE was successfully inserted into an orbit around a gravitationally stable point about a million miles away from Earth. From its upstream location, ACE samples the solar wind before it arrives at Earth and can provide advance warnings of solar wind disturbances that can affect the near-Earth space environment. The Laboratory team powered up its instruments shortly before Christmas and has fine-tuned them for ongoing data collection.
Some groups do know what it means to work safely.
The group has 145 employees and does writing, editing and graphics work for the Lab. Safety First is the Laboratory's number one tactical goal. One person in particular slipped and fell, and needed extensive dental work as a result. Slips and falls comprised the majority of CIC-1's reportable accidents. Other common accidents in CIC-1 are sprains and strains caused by improper lifting, lacerations and other types of cuts.