Europe Solar Orbiter Moves Ahead With De-scoped NASA Participation
Posted by Amy Svitak 5:27 AM on Apr 27, 2012
NASA's
funding woes continue to have an impact on the European Space Agency
(ESA) as it presses ahead with plans to launch a next-generation solar
probe in 2017.
NASA was expected to provide up
to four instruments and a launch vehicle to ESA's Solar Orbiter
Collaboration, a robotic sun probe designed to help scientists
understand the causes of space weather and provide the closest-ever view
of the sun during the spacecraft's seven-year design life.
But rising launch costs coupled with flat
spending in the U.S. forced NASA last year to pare back its Solar
Orbiter commitment, leaving ESA to fund two instruments – the
Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph and Spectral Imaging of the Coronal
Environment – on its own.
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