Projects
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AFFECTS - ADVANCED FORECAST FOR ENSURING COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH SPACEAFFECTS is a space research project under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union. It will provide advanced early space weather warning to protect communication systems.
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CGAUSS - Coronagraphic German And US SolarProbePlus SurveyNASA’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission will be a historic project, exploring in-situ the Sun’s outer atmosphere or corona – Mankind’s first visit of s star. CGAUSS is the german contribution to the Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) Plus. Launch of the SPP mission is planned for 2018.
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eHeroesThe eHeroes project (Environment for Human Exploration and RObotic Experimentation in Space) is an European Commission funded FP7 project. Its goals are to zero-in on the physics of all aspects of space weather, on the relevant data sources and on the design mathematical models that can address them, to develop specific models to forecast space weather activity and to investigate the effects of space weather on space exploration, focusing on the robotic and human missions of exploration.
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ESA Astrium SN-IIImplementation Design Study of Space Weather Instruments
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HELCATS - Heliospheric Cataloguing, Analysis and Techniques ServiceThe project brings together key European expertise in solar storm observations and modelling to address the important issue of how these potentially hazardous storms can be tracked as they speed out from the Sun.
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HeliosHelios-A and Helios-B (also known as Helios 1 and Helios 2), were a pair of space probes orbiting the Sun in highly elliptic orbits to study the interplanetary medium between Sun and Earth. The mission launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Dec. 10, 1974, and Jan. 15, 1976, respectively was was a joint venture of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and NASA.
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Proba 2PROBA2 is an ESA micro-satellite launched on November 2, 2009 from the Russian launch base Plesetsk. PROBA2 carries two solar instruments (SWAP and LYRA) and two instruments to study the space environment surrounding the spacecraft (DSLP and TPMU).
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SFB 963 - Astrophysical Flow Instabilities and TurbulenceA collaborative research project to investigate the common underlying physical processes of Astrophysical Flow Instabilities and Turbulence.
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SOHOSOHO, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, is a project of international collaboration between ESA and NASA to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind.
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Solar OrbiterESA’s Solar Orbiter mission will perform a close-up study of the Sun and inner heliosphere in collaboration with NASA. Launch of the Solar Orbiter Mission is planned for 2017.
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Solar SailingThe collaborative Gossamer Roadmap of DLR/ESA focuses on the technical aspects for solar sail propulsion. The DL1 Working Group of the project will study a solar sail based ’space-weather’ mission in a halo orbit around a point in space which is Displaced sunward of L1.
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SOTERIAThe EU FP7 project SOTERIA creates synergies in the fields of solar-space and geo-physics among different centers in a number of European countries to achieve a higher level of quality and accessibility for the observational data and for the models. The studies conducted involve the analysis and processing of the relevant data from 18 satellites, including several ESA and other European satellites. The study will be complemented by a large set of data from European ground-based observatories.
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STEREOSTEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is the third mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP). Since launch in October 2006 the mission has provided a unique and revolutionary view of the Sun-Earth System. STEREO consists of two nearly identical observatories - one ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind.
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ULYSSESThe main scientific goal of the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses deep-space mission was to make the first-ever measurements of the unexplored region of space above the Sun's poles. Launched on 6 October 1990, the mission ended on 30 June 2009 after 6842 days (18 years 8 months 24 days) in orbit.
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