Heliophysics
Missions
Heliophysics research and exploration aims to explore the Sun-Earth system to understand the Sun and its interactions with Earth and the solar system. Each Heliophysics flight mission has a specific, often tightly focused scientific goal. In addition, the missions taken together form an extended sensor web of spacecraft that are utilized to understand the dynamics of the solar system as an integrated whole. The distributed Heliophysics System Observatory has flexibility and capabilities that evolve with each new mission launched.