SOHO Disruptions

[MeteorWayne]

FYI

ANNOUNCEMENT
Moving to Another Building
Nov 19, 2010: In the next two weeks, the SOHO team, our data center and our computer servers will be moving to another building. During this period, data updates to the SOHO website may not occur or, may not be consistent. Thank you for your understanding.

MW

 

[EarthlingX]

SOHO mission is one of the 11 ESA missions that has been extended, as a bit of a Christmas present

http://www.esa.int : Europe maintains its presence on the final frontier

22 November 2010

ESA has decided to extend the productive lives of 11 of its operating space science missions. This will enable ESA’s world-class science missions to continue returning pioneering results until at least 2014.

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The missions under consideration during this round were Cluster, Integral, Planck, Mars Express, Venus Express and XMM-Newton – all led by ESA.

Also considered were ESA’s contributions to the international collaborative missions Hinode (with Japan), Cassini-Huygens, Hubble Space Telescope and SOHO (all with NASA), and to science operations of ESA’s Proba-2 technology demonstrator.

Last week, the SPC confirmed previously agreed extensions for these missions until 2012 and approved new extensions to 2014, subject to confirmation in late 2012 on the regular two-year cycle.

The extensions for SOHO, Hinode and Proba-2 will ensure that our Sun is closely watched during the rise to its next peak of magnetic activity, expected in 2013. Meanwhile, the four Cluster satellites will measure the effect of this activity nearer to home, in Earth’s magnetosphere.

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[tom_hobbes]

Oh, Wayne, that SOHO.

I thought you meant...

 

[MeteorWayne]

:lol: :lol:

 

[MeteorWayne]

Moving to Another Building (update)
On November 29, the SOHO team, our data center and computer servers will be moving to another building. We plan to restore operations within 48 hours of our move. During that time, none of the services provided by our servers and this site will be available. However, while no data updates will be propagated to our European mirror site, that site will be accessible. Thank you for your understanding.