HR: 09:45h
AN: SH41A-06    [Abstracts]
TI: The Living With a Star (LWS) Sentinels Mission
AU: * Szabo, A
EM: Adam.Szabo@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics, Code 612.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: The Sentinels Mission, the heliospheric element of the NASA Living With a Star (LWS) program, is still rapidly evolving, especially as the Sentinels Science and Technology Definition Team is progressing with its work. With the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the solar component, and the Geospace elements taking a more finalized form, it becomes clearer what scientific and measurement objectives will be necessary to establish the solar-geospace connection in order to achieve the goals of the LWS program. Possible, early formulation designs of the Sentinels mission will be presented that includes the Inner Heliospheric Mappers, a four spacecraft mission to observe the inner heliosphere between 0.25 and 1.0 AUs along with a Far Side Sentinel that will perform remote solar observations from nearly the opposite side of the Sun. Moreover, the complementarity of the various planned international missions (e.g., ESA Solar Orbiter, and Beppi Colombo) along with NASA planetary projects (e.g., Mars program and MESSENGER) will be discussed and how they can form a coherent system. Finally, the importance of already available heliospheric data will be emphasized.
DE: 2199 General or miscellaneous
DE: 7599 General or miscellaneous
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly