Future solar and Heliospheric ESA missions
Abstract
The status of solar mission preparation and planning within ESA is summarised. The forthcoming far-reaching solar investigations by the SOHO mission which, together with the CLUSTER space-plasma physics mission, forms the first Cornerstone of `Horizon 2000' will play a central role in the Agency's programme in the second half of the 1990's. It is pointed out that a solar mission - probably as an international collaboration - is part of the long-term plan `Horizon 2000 Plus', whose implementation will be discussed at the ESA Ministerial Meeting in Autumn 1995.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- March 1996
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0273-1177(95)00599-A
- Bibcode:
- 1996AdSpR..17d.355H
- Keywords:
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- Cluster Mission;
- Esa Satellites;
- European Space Agency;
- European Space Programs;
- Heliosphere;
- Soho Mission;
- Solar Physics;
- Chemical Composition;
- International Cooperation;
- Solar Corona;
- Solar Interior;
- Solar Wind;
- Solar Physics