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| The Solar-B space mission is currently the centerpiece of HAO's magnetic field measurement program. Solar-B is a Japanese space mission with substantial collaborations from the US and the UK. It will fly the first ever precision high-resolution solar spectro-polarimeter in space. |
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| With its 1 meter diameter aperture (twice that of Solar-B), the Sunrise telescope will achieve a resolution observable in quantitative detail in order to reveal the physics of solar variability in the visible, and it will achieve a resolution about twice that in the ultraviolet (220 nm) accessible at balloon altitude.
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| The HMI instrument on SDO will be the first space instrument to provide routine measurements of the full vector magnetic field over the entire solar disk, in addition to providing helioseismic measurements that continue the time series started by the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) on the SOHO spacecraft.
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| The Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) observatory was launched by a Delta rocket on February 14, 1980, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. HAO provided a white-light coronagraph/polarimeter (C/P) to study the relationship of the corona to the flare process. This instrument obtained coronal images from March through September of 1980 before suffering an electronics failure that rendered it inoperative. A few weeks later, a power failure occurred in the Attitude Control System (ACS) of the SMM spacecraft; consequently, stable pointing of the spacecraft was no longer possible, and the entire spacecraft was put into a dormant ("standby") mode. The SMM spacecraft remained in this state for more than 3 years.
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