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Space Environment 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
20070426 April 25, 2007	AIM Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM)  is a mission to determine the causes of the highest altitude clouds in the Earth's atmosphere. The number of clouds in the middle...	Operating
20080416 20:00:00 USEastern April 16, 2008	CINDI/CNOFS The Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigations (CINDI) is a mission to understand the dynamics of the Earth's ionosphere. CINDI will provide two instruments for the...	Operating
20111001 TBD	RBSP The RBSP mission will provide scientific understanding, ideally to the point of predictability, of how populations of relativistic electrons and ions in space form and change...	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
20030126 January 25, 2003	SORCE SORCE is a NASA-sponsored satellite mission that will provide state-of-the-art measurements of incoming x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, and total solar radiation....	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
20070218 February 17, 2007	THEMIS Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS)  is a study of the onset of magnetic storms within the tail of the Earth's magnetosphere....	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
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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