Space Plasma Group Missions

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

Present

STRV (1994 - Present)

Polar - NASA mission to explore auroral regions (February 24th 1996 - present)

Interball-Tail

Cassini - a joint NASA-ESA mission to Saturn (October 15th 1997 - present)

Future

STRV-1 c,d (launch 1999)

Cluster II - ESA's mission to investigate the Earth's magnetosphere (launch mid 2000)

Beagle 2 - Britain's mission to search for life on Mars (launch June 2003)

Space Plasma Physics

Mullard Space Science Lab