Space Plasma Group Missions
The MSSL Space Plasma Group has or has had involvement in a large number of space flight missions, either by providing instrumentation or by participating in the analysis of the scientific data returned. The mission list is provided here in reverse chronological order, Future, Present and Past.
Future
Cluster II -
ESA's 4 spacecraft mission to investigate the Earth's magnetosphere (launch
July 12 and August 9, 2000)
Beagle
2 - Britain's mission to search for life on Mars (launch June 2003)
Present
Polar -
NASA mission to explore auroral regions (February 24th 1996 - present)
Cassini -
a joint NASA-ESA mission to Saturn (October 15th 1997 - present)
WIND (1994 -
Present)
Geotail (1992
- Present)
Past
GEOS
- 1 and 2 (1977-1982)
Meteosat 2
(1981-1991)
AMPTE -
US/German/UK Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers (1984 - 1985)
Giotto -
ESA's mission to comets Halley and Grigg-Skjellerup (1985 - 1992)
CRRES
- USAF space radiation experiment satellite (1990 - 1991)
Pulsaur
(1994)
Meteosat 3
(P2) (1988 - 1995)
Mars 96
lost following the failure of the final stage of the Proton launcher in
November 1996
STRV (1994 -
1998)
Space Plasma Physics 
Mullard
Space Science Lab
ajc@nojunk-removethis-mssl.ucl.ac.uk, Telephone : +44 (0) 1483 274111
Space Plasma Physics Group, Mullard Space Science Laboratory,
Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey, RH5 6NT, United Kingdom