Sentences with phrase «solar orbiter»

Dr. Martínez Pillet is a Senior Scientist at the Instituto de Astrofíscia de Canarias, where he is the Co-Principal Investigator for the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager instrument to be flown on the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission, and Principal Investigator for the Imaging Magnetograph Experiment that has flown as part of the Sunrise balloon - borne telescope.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter will launch in 2018, and by 2021 will be in operational orbit around the sun.

Solar Orbiter will look at particles, plasma and other items in an environment relatively close to the sun, before these things are modified by being transported across the solar system.

The first, known as Solar Orbiter, will see a spacecraft operating closer to the Sun than any previous mission with a particular focus on examining the solar wind.

The ESA issued a «call for missions» around these aims in 2007 and three medium - class missions were subsequently considered, of which the Solar Orbiter and Euclid missions are the first to be selected.

Our research approach includes spacecraft observations (from missions such as Cluster, THEMIS, MMS, Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter), large scale kinetic simulations, and fundamental plasma theory to understand plasma phenomena throughout the universe.

Our Group has built the magnetometer instrument on the ESA Solar Orbiter spacecraft due for launch in 2019 and has scientific involvement in the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission, launching in 2018.

The institute is the PI institution of the STIX X-ray telescope to be flown onboard ESA's Solar Orbiter mission and is also involved in cubesat projects.

There are three other missions as part of this initiative, including JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, an L - class mission intended for a 2022 launch), Solar Orbiter (M1, intended for a 2017 launch), and Euclid (M2, intended for a 2020 launch).

The three are Euclid, which will study dark matter and dark energy; Plato, aimed at exoplanets; and Solar Orbiter, which will give us the closest view yet of the sun.

Previous medium - class missions by ESA were Solar Orbiter and a dark - energy / dark - matter observatory called Euclid, selected in 2011.

«It is amazing,» says Chris Draper, who works on the heat shield for the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter — which will go closer to the sun than any other human - made object — at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK.

The techniques will become more important as bigger solar observatories come online, such as the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope to be built in Hawaii later this decade, and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, due to be launched in 2017.

Not exact matches

Using data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists believe they have solved a mystery from one of the solar system's coldest regions — a permanently shadowed crater on the moon.

JAPAN Since its first launch in 1970, the country has lofted numerous Earth - observation satellites, a spacecraft powered by a solar sail, and SELENE, a lunar orbiter that mapped the moon's surface.

Astronomers who recently discovered the so - called 10th planet have also found what may be the weirdest object in the solar system: a Pluto - size orbiter shaped like a squashed football.

As the comet hurtles through the inner Solar System at around 100,000 km / h, the relative speed between orbiter and comet will remain equivalent to walking pace.

Laser altimetry data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have provided a comprehensive look at the cratering history of the inner solar system

The mission would include an orbiter and a lander, and possibly a solar - powered airship that would fly through Venus» upper atmosphere.

Orbiter spots solar particles penetrating deep into atmosphere of Mars sciencemag.org, Mon., Dec. 15, 2014

The solar event on Sept. 11, 2017 sparked a global aurora at Mars more than 25 times brighter than any previously seen by the MAVEN orbiter, which has been studying the Martian atmosphere's interaction with the solar wind since 2014.

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The Trace Gas Orbiter has reached its final orbit after a year of «aerobraking» that ended in February.This exciting operation saw the craft skimming through the very top of the upper atmosphere, using drag on its solar wings to transform its initial highly elliptical four - day orbit of about 200 x 98 000 km into the final, much lower and near - circular path at about 400 km.

In addition, MSSS cameras on Mars Global Surveyor (the Mars Orbiter Camera, MOC) and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (the Context Camera, CTX) acquired images of two small bodies in our Solar System: the martian satellites Phobos and Deimos.

Provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, such RTG's have been included on many past deep space probes such as the Cassini mission to Saturn, the Galileo orbiter of Jupiter, and the Voyager craft now on their way out of the solar system.

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