1990•AIP conference proceedingsRequires access
The solar probe mission
W. C. Feldman, John David Anderson, J. David Bohlin, L. F. Burlaga, Robert W. Farquhar, G. Gloeckler, Bruce Evan Goldstein, John Harvey, T. E. Holzer, W. V. Jones, P. J. Kellogg, Stamatios Mike Krimigis, M. R. Kundu, Alan J. Lazarus, Mary M. Mellott, EUGENE N. PARKER, R. Rosner, Gary J. Rottman, J. A. Slavin, S. T. Suess, Bruce Tsatnam Tsurutani, R. Woo, R. D. Zwickl
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Abstract
The Solar Probe will deliver a 133.5 kg science payload into a 4 Rs perihelion solar polar orbit (with the first perihelion passage in 2004) to explore in situ one of the last frontiers in the solar system—the solar corona. This mission is both affordable and technologically feasible. Using a payload of 12 (predominantly particles and fields) scientific experiments, it will be possible to answer many long‐standing, fundamental problems concerning the structure and dynamics of the outer solar atmosphere, including the acceleration, storage, and transport of energetic particles near the Sun and in the inner (<65 Rs) heliosphere.