Instruments

The PLAsma and SupraThermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) instrument is studing coronal-solar wind and solar wind-heliospheric processes. PLASTIC will provide in situ plasma characteristics of protons, alpha particles and heavy ions. It will supply key diagnostic measurements of mass and charge state composition of heavy ions and will characterize the coronal mass ejection plasma from ambient solar wind plasma. The University of New Hampshire's Antoinette Galvin is the principal investigator for PLASTIC.

STEREO/WAVES (S/WAVES) is an interplanetary radio burst tracker that will trace the generation and evolution of traveling radio disturbances from the sun to Earth's orbit. A radio and plasma wave receiver, S/WAVES is both a remote-sensing and an in-situ instrument. Jean-Louis Bougeret, of the Paris Observatory, Meudon, is the principal investigator.