The International Solar Polar Mission – Its Scientific Investigations

Abstract

ESA 1983 Noordwijk: ESA iv + 317 pp price FF175 ISSN 0379 6566 In May 1986 (d.v.), NASA and the European Space Agency will jointly launch the International Solar Polar Mission satellite. The orbit will be Jupiter-gravity assisted, and the satellite will make observations in regions of the heliosphere where the very complex solar wind, which confuses observations near the ecliptic, is expected to be absent.