Report on the Activities of Space Science Department, 1990

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Report on the Activities of Space Science Department, 1990 - Mid 1992

M. C. E. Huber / A. Pedersen / B. G. Taylor / K. Wenzel / M. A. Perry

Activities of the ESA space science department during 1990 to mid 1992 in the support of projects and studies covering solar and heliospheric science, planetary and space science, and astrophysics are reported. Within the research area of solar and heliospheric physics the following projects were supported: Ulysses, Soho, Solar Terrestrial Science Program (STSP), Space Physics Analysis Network (SPAN), Polar Platform. Studies supported include PRISMA (Probing Rotation and Interior of Stars: Microvariability and Activity), STEP (Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle), and SIMURIS (a Solar system and stellar Interferometric Mission for Ultrahigh Resolution Imagery and Spectroscopy). Within the space plasma and planetary physics division projects supported include Giotto extended mission, Cluster, and Huygens/Cassini; studies supported include Rosetta, Marsnet, lunar studies, and optical planetary telescope. Within the astrophysics division projects supported include Exosat, International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE), Hipparcos, Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), and the X-ray Multiple Mirror Telescope (XMM); studies supported include FIRST (Far Infrared and Submillimeter space Telescope), INTEGRAL (International Gamma Ray Astrophysics Laboratory), PRISMA, lunar studies, optical planetary telescope, and the international very long baseline interferometry satellite.