Future Space Instrumentation for Solar Physics

We review the space instrumentation that is currently being developed for studies of the Sun. Currently the main solar physics mission is SOHO, which has support from Yohkoh, Coronas I and a variety of "particles and fields" spacecraft such as Polar, Wind, Geotail and Interball. The principal new facility will be the TRACE mission, which is scheduled for launch in 1997/1998. For the medium term future, missions such as the Solar Probe, Coronas-F and Foton, plus the successor to Yohkoh are likely to be realised, at least in part. Other missions are in a definition phase, such as HESSI, SIMURIS and a STEREO mission of some form. New particle instruments which can detect solar emissions, such as ACE, will be launched before the year 2000. The ESA Horizon 2000+ program has some medium missions, yet to be defined, which should be devoted to solar studies.