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 | ESA's report to the 37th COSPAR meeting, Montreal, Canada, July 2008. - Noordwijk: ESA, 2008. - 176 p. - (European space agency; SP-1312). - ISSN 0379-6566; ISBN 978-92-9221-404-3
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1. Introduction ................................................. 1
2. Missions in Operation
2.1 Hubble Space Telescope .................................. 9
2.2 Ulysses ................................................ 15
2.3 SOHO ................................................... 23
2.4 Cassini/Huygens ........................................ 29
2.5 XMM-Newton ............................................. 37
2.6 Cluster ................................................ 45
2.7 Integral ............................................... 51
2.8 Mars Express ........................................... 59
2.9 Double Star ............................................ 67
2.10 Rosetta ................................................ 71
2.11 Venus Express .......................................... 77
2.12 Contributions to nationally-led missions
2.12.1 Suzaku .......................................... 85
2.12.2 AKARI ........................................... 85
2.12.3 Hinode .......................................... 86
2.12.4 COROT ........................................... 89
3. Mission in Post-Operations/Archival Phase
3.1 ISO .................................................... 93
3.2 SMART-1 ................................................ 95
4. Projects under Development
4.1 Chandrayaan-1 ......................................... 101
4.2 Herschel .............................................. 103
4.3 Planck ................................................ 111
4.4 LISA Pathfinder ....................................... 115
4.5 Gaia .................................................. 119
4.6 JWST .................................................. 123
4.7 BepiColombo ........................................... 127
4.8 Solar Orbiter ......................................... 131
5. Missions under Study
5.1 XEUS .................................................. 137
5.2 Cross-Scale ........................................... 141
5.3 Plato ................................................. 145
5.4 SPICA ................................................. 147
5.5 Marco Polo ............................................ 149
5.6 Euclid: a Dark Energy mission ......................... 153
5.7 Laplace/TandEM ........................................ 155
5.8 LISA .................................................. 162
List of Acronyms .............................................. 169
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