WIND/SMS at

The solar WIND satellite laboratory, SWICS/MASS/STICS (SMS) Experiment
at the University of Bern

Welcome!

...to the WIND/SMS WWW page at the University of Bern. This page is still under construction. It will soon include up-to-date plots of the wealth of information received on the solar wind since the November 1, 1994 launch.

Credits

The SMS solar wind experiment on the WIND satellite was produced in a joint effort at the following hardware-providing institutions:

• University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
• Physikalisches Institut der Universität Bern, Switzerland
• Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
• Institut für Datenverarbeitung, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

This international SMS team brings together expertise in building the individual sensors of the SMS instrument, electronic equipment, data analysis and mission operations and theory, all on the WIND laboratory, which is half of the Global Geospace Science GGS mission, just one component of the International Solar Terrestrial Physics science initiative ( ISTP) which is coordinated at the Science Planning and Operations Facility SPOF. The work is supported in part by NASA, USA, by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and ESA.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Scientific Objectives
3. Experiment Overview
4. The SWICS Sensor
5. The MASS Sensor
6. The STICS Sensor
7. The Digital Processing Unit
8. Bibliography and Reader Response

Other WWW places
at University of Bern

• Mass Spectrometry and Cosmic Ray Group Home Page
• The SOHO/CELIAS Experiment
• The ULYSSES/SWICS Experiment