The main scientific objectives of the Soviet-French ARCAD-3 Project on the AUREOL-3 near-Earth satellite (1981-1986) were to study magnetospheric plasma processes including measurements of auroral particles, electromagnetic fields, thermal plasma variations, auroral field-aligned currents and related auroral emissions. ... SATELLITE NAME : AUREOL-3 (AURora and EOLe) . ... PROJECT SCIENTIST : Yuri I.Galperin, Space Research Institute (IKI) of Russian Academy of Sciences. ...