Stereo Mission Overview

Author

Kaiser, Michael L. ; Adams, W. James

Author_Institution

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt

fYear

2007

fDate

3-10 March 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

NASA´s Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) mission began as a concept study in 1997 and was confirmed as a follow on to NASA´s highly successful line of Solar observing missions. Launched on October 25, 2006 the twin observatories will take unprecedented images of the sun from a unique off the sun-earth axis angle in 3-D. Along with the suite of ultraviolet and visible light imagers the mission also carries an array of state of the art energetic particle detectors and electromagnetic sensors to enable better understanding of the dynamics of the sun´s coronal mass ejections and solar wind.

Keywords

Sun; artificial satellites; astronomical instruments; image sensors; solar wind; NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory mission; STEREO Mission; Sun; coronal mass ejections; electromagnetic sensors; energetic particle detectors; solar observing missions; solar wind; ultraviolet light imagers; Earth; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Magnetic field measurement; NASA; Observatories; Space technology; Space vehicles; Sun; Weather forecasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0524-6

Electronic_ISBN

1095-323X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2007.352745

Filename

4161299