The SDO Mission
Abstract
The Solar Dynamics Observatory, scheduled to launch in August 2007, will view the Sun continuously from an inclined geosynchronous orbit. The spacecraft will be a robust, three-axis stabilized spacecraft with low jitter and will deliver 150 Mbps of continuous high rate data. The spacecraft will be built, tested and integrated in-house at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, with four instruments to be developed by three Principal Investigator teams. The primary challenges include maintaining an ambitious schedule, designing a communications and ground system which can handle an unprecedented volume of space science data, and a baseline of five years reliability. The presentation will focus on the progress of the GSFC SDO Project team in developing the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002AGUFMSH21C..01S
- Keywords:
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- 7537 Solar and stellar variability;
- 7594 Instruments and techniques