SOHO - Launched December 1995
SOHO is a ESA/NASA mission designed to study the quiet Sun. It was launched in
December 1995. MSSL is part of the consortium, led by RAL, that has been
constructing the Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer (CDS). For more information
about SOHO, particularly the CDS instrument, see the
SOHO home page.
Yohkoh - Launched August 1991
Yohkoh is a satellite of the Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical
Science (ISAS) dedicated to high-energy observations of the Sun, specifically
of flares and other coronal disturbances.
MSSL is also the home of the Yohkoh Data
Archive Centre in the UK.
For more information
about these projects and what we can learn about the physics of our Sun, visit
the homepage of the Solar
Physics group.
