Sentences with phrase «solar orbiter mission»
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.
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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.
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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.
Previous medium - class missions by ESA were Solar Orbiter and a dark - energy / dark - matter observatory called Euclid, selected in 2011.
The mission would include an orbiter and a lander, and possibly a solar - powered airship that would fly through Venus» upper atmosphere.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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 Solar Orbiter, will see a spacecraft operating closer to the Sun than any previous mission with a particular focus on examining the solar solar wind.
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.