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Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) / Institut für Weltraumforschung (IWF), Graz, Austria, T +43/316/4120-400, [email protected], iwf.oeaw.ac.at Download: 2013
MMS Four identical NASA satellites
for 3D measurements in the Earth’s magnetosphere (launch: 2014)
IWF lead: satellite potential control; IWF contribution: electron beam instrument and magnetometer
Resonance Four Russian spacecraft exploring Earth’s magnetosphere
(launch: 2015) IWF contribution: calibration of electric field sensors
BepiColombo Magnetospheric (JAXA) and planetary orbiter (ESA) exploring
Mercury (launch: 2016) IWF lead: magnetometer; IWF contribution: mass
spectrometer
ElectroMagnetic Satellite Chinese satellite studying Earth’s ionosphere (launch: 2016) IWF lead: development of a scalar magnetometer
InSight NASA Mars lander for geophysical research (launch: 2016) IWF contribution: heat flow and physical property package
Solar Orbiter ESA spacecraft studying Sun and heliosphere (launch: 2017) IWF contribution: antenna calibration, wave processor, and
magnetometer
CHEOPS ESA space telescope characterizing exoplanets (launch:
2017) IWF contribution: onboard computer
JUICE ESA spacecraft studying
Jupiter and three of its largest moons (launch: 2022)
IWF contribution: magneto-meter and antenna calibration
GOCE ESA satellite measuring the
Earth’s gravity field (launch: 2009)
IWF contribution: algorithms for gravity field parameters
JUNO NASA mission dedicated to understand Jupiter’s origin
and evolution (launch: 2011) IWF contribution: antenna calibration
Van Allen Probes Two NASA spacecraft studying processes in the Earth’s
radiation belts (launch: 2012) IWF contribution: electric and magnetic field instruments
Cassini NASA orbiter exploring Saturn and its moons (launch: 1997) IWF contribution: antenna calibration
Cluster Four ESA spacecraft investigating the Earth’s
magnetosphere (launch: 2000) IWF lead: satellite potential control; IWF contribution:
magnetometer
Rosetta ESA orbiter and lander ex-
ploring comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko (launch: 2004, arrival: 2014)
IWF lead: atomic force micro-scope; IWF contribution: mass spectrometer, penetra-tor, and magnetometers
Venus Express ESA satellite investigating
Venus’ atmosphere and ionosphere (launch: 2005)
IWF lead: magnetometer; IWF contribution: ion spectrometer
STEREO Two NASA spacecraft observing the Sun (launch: 2006) IWF contribution: antenna calibration
In the area of instrument development the emphasis lies on magnetometers and onboard computers, antenna calibration and on satellite laser ranging.
Presently, IWF is involved in seventeen active and future inter-national space missions. It collaborates with the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA, national space agencies in France, Japan, Russia, and China, with the Austrian space industry, and more than 120 research institutes worldwide.
Missions in Preparation
Missions in Orbit
IWF Missions
Rosetta (ESA/AOES)
Victor Franz Hess Research Center (IWF/Fischer)
THEMIS Five NASA satellites explor-
ing the origin of magnetic storms and auroral pheno-mena (launch: 2007)
IWF contribution: magneto-meter
The Space Research Institute (Institut für Weltraumforschung,
IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, ÖAW) in Graz focuses on Earth’s gravity field space plasma physics solar system exploration
with over 80 staff members from more than a dozen nationalities.
Green Sunlight Aurora (NASA/Hugo Løhre
MMS Cleanroom (ASRC Research and Technology/B. Lambert)
GOCE (ESA/AOES)GOCE (ESA)
JUICE (ESA/AOES)