Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer at Imperial College
These pages provide information about the SOHO mission and the SOHO payload of instruments.

Introduction to SOHO

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is part of the Solar Terrestrial Science Program (STSP), one of the cornerstone missions of the European Space Agency (ESA) Horizon 2000 program. This is a co-ordinated program looking at the relationship between the Sun and the Earth, and involves both the SOHO and Cluster missions, with SOHO looking at the Sun and measuring some characteristics of the solar wind, and the four Cluster spacecraft examining the near-Earth solar wind and the structure and evolution of the magnetosphere. The STSP is in turn part of a larger international program, known as the International Solar Terrestrial Science program, which includes many other spacecraft, such as Ulysses, Wind, and Yohkoh.

SOHO mission
The goals of the SOHO mission; the launch of SOHO; the SOHO orbit.

SOHO payload
A description of the payload on board SOHO.

SOHO homepage
The homepage of the SOHO mission, featuring instrument descriptions, recent SOHO observations, and much, much more.


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This page last updated 11th September 1996.