Heliosphere Missions

Heliophysics research and exploration aims to explore the Sun-Earth system to understand the Sun and its effects on Earth, the solar system, and the space environmental conditions that will be experienced by explorers, and to demonstrate technologies that can improve future operational systems.

2008 Senior Review of the Mission Operations and Data Analysis Program for the Heliophysics Operating Missions
2005 Senior Review of Sun-Solar-System Connection Missions Operations and Data Analysis Program
2003 Senior Review of the Sun-Earth Connection Mission Operations and Data Analysis Program
2001 Senior Review of the Sun-Earth Connection Mission Operations and Data Analysis Program
1997 Senior Review of the Sun-Earth Connection Mission Operations and Data Analysis Program

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Launch Date	A-Z	Phase
19970826 August 25, 1997	ACE Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) observes particles of solar, interplanetary, interstellar, and galactic origins, spanning the energy range from solar wind ions to...	Operating
20080716 July 15, 2008	IBEX IBEX will be the first mission designed to detect the edge of the Solar System. As the solar wind from the sun flows out beyond Pluto, it collides with the material between...	Development
20000326 March 25, 2000	IMAGE IMAGE studied the global response of the magnetosphere to changes in the solar wind. Major changes occur to the configuration of the magnetosphere as a result of changes in...	Past
19951203 December 02, 1995	SoHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)  is a solar observatory studying the structure, chemical composition, and dynamics of the solar interior. SOHO a joint venture of...	Operating
20061026 October 25, 2006	STEREO The goal of STEREO is to understand the origin the Sun's coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and their consequences for Earth. The mission consists of two spacecraft, one leading...	Operating
19901007 October 06, 1990	Ulysses The Ulysses Mission is the first spacecraft to explore interplanetary space at high solar latitudes, orbiting the Sun nearly perpendicular to the plane in which the planets...	Operating
19770906 September 05, 1977	Voyager The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft continue exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. In the 25th year after their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away...	Operating
19941102 November 01, 1994	Wind Wind studies the solar wind and its impact on the near-Earth environment. This mission is part of SMD's Heliophysics Research...	Operating

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