ESA's report to the 29th COSPAR Meeting
Abstract
All ESA missions in operation, under development, or in planning are described. Missions beyond the operational phase are also presented if considerable effort is still being expended in supporting the data analysis through an archive. The aging and completed missions are: IUE, Exosat, Hipparcos, Giotto extended mission, Ulysses, and Hubble Space Telescope. The projects under development are: Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), the Solar Terrestrial Science Program (STSP) (which comprises the four Cluster spacecraft and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)), the X-ray Multimirror Mission (XMM) and the Cassini/Huygens mission. Missions under study are: the Far Infrared Space Telescope (FIRST), the comet nucleus sample return (Rosetta), the International Gamma Ray Laboratory (INTEGRAL), a network of three semi hard landers to be placed on the Martian surface (MARSNET), a mission for probing the interior and rotation of stars (PRISMA), and a Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle (STEP). Missions beyond Horizon 2000 are: Return to the Moon, interferometry from space, and Vulcan. ESA platforms described are Eureca (the European retrieval carrier) and Simuris (a solar system and stellar interferometric mission for ultrahigh resolution imaging and spectroscopy).
- Publication:
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Meeting held in Washington
- Pub Date:
- August 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992wadc.meet.....A
- Keywords:
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- Esa Satellites;
- European Space Agency;
- European Space Programs;
- Mission Planning;
- Cassini Mission;
- Cluster Mission;
- Eureca (Esa);
- Exosat Satellite;
- Giotto Mission;
- Hipparcos Satellite;
- Hubble Space Telescope;
- Infrared Space Observatory (Iso);
- Infrared Telescopes;
- Iue;
- Lunar Bases;
- Soho Mission;
- Ulysses Mission;
- Astronautics (General)