ESA's space plasma physics missions - the past and the future ten years.
Abstract
The European Space Agency has launched several missions in the field of space plasma physics in the past. This paper briefly summarizes some of the scientific results from the very successful and completed ISEE and GEOS missions. As for the future, this paper describes the major mission objectives of the recently approved 4-spacecraft Cluster mission.
- Publication:
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Plasma Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- January 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989plap.work...21S
- Keywords:
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- Space Missions: Earth Magnetosphere;
- Space Missions;
- European Space Programs;
- Plasma Diagnostics;
- Plasma Physics;
- Space Missions;
- Space Plasmas;
- Earth Magnetosphere;
- Geos Satellites (Esa);
- International Sun Earth Explorers;
- Nasa Space Programs;
- U.S.S.R. Space Program;
- Plasma Physics