Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006spd....37.3601d&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #37, #36.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.260
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Solar-B mission is a collaboration between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) of the United Kingdom and the European Space Agency. The principal scientific goals of the mission are to understand the processes of magnetic field generation, transport and dissipation of solar magnetic fields and how the release of magnetic energy is responsible for the heating and structuring of the chromosphere and corona. The scientific payload contains three instruments: the Solar Optical Telescope that consists of the Optical Telescope Assembly and the Focal Plane Package, the X-ray Telescope and the EUV Imaging Spectrometer. Each instrument is a result of the combined talents of the members of the international team and they are designed to work together as an "observatory" simultaneously studying the target region at different levels in the solar atmosphere. Solar-B is scheduled for launch in September 2006 from the Uchinoura Space Center into a 600 km circular, sun-synchronous, polar orbit with a nominal elevation of 97.9 degrees. The orbit provides morning and evening contacts in Japan with the evening contacts used for uploading commands. In addition ESA will provide 15 contacts per day from the Norwegian high latitude ground station at Svalbard. The data downloads are transmitted to ISAS where they are reformatted into FITS files and archived as Level 0 data on the ISAS DARTS system and are then available to the scientific community. Scientific operations will be conducted from the ISAS facility in Sagamihara, Japan. They are separated into planning, implementation and archiving. The planning process involves preparation of monthly, weekly and daily plans. All scientific data will be made available, after the first six months, approximately one week after its collection.
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