Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) / Institut für Weltraumforschung (IWF), Graz, Austria, T +43/316/4120-400, pr.iwf@oeaw.ac.at, 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)