CGAUSS

Coronagraphic German and US Parker Solar Probe Survey

The Solar Orbiter

The Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Göttingen is involved in the Solar Orbiter mission as Co-Investigator of the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) Instrument led by the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.

More information about ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter mission can be found here.

Mission Overview

Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Joy Ng

Other Missions

More information of other missions of ESA's/NASA's Heliophysics Space Fleet:

DLR
IAG
WISPR
PSP

The CGAUSS project is funded by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) under grant 50OL2301 as the national contribution to the Parker Solar Probe mission.

The WISPR project is led by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington DC, USA with Dr. Mark Linton as Principal Investigator (PI). The former PI was Dr. Russell A. Howard with Deputy PI and Project Scientist Dr. Angelos Vourlidas, now both at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA.