Working Group 1: Solar System Exploration (Phase 3)

Established at the 16th plenary session of the IACG in the USA, December 9-11, 1996

Purview: the WG shall investigate possible international collaborative efforts that would benefit the various ongoing and future flight projects to the small bodies of the Solar System (comets and Asteroids) cfr. minutes 18th plenary meeting.

Recent and  and future meetings:
 WG   Bern, October 6, 1998 (in conjunction with 18th plenary)
 Sub/set (NASA, ESA) Turin, June 4, 1999 (during the IMPACT WS)
 WG   Padova, October 14, 1999 (during the DPS/AAS)
 WG   Okinawa, Nov.16,1999 (in conjunction with the 19th plenary)

Working Group 2: Solar Terrestrial Science (Phase 2)

Constituted at the 16th. Plenary in the USA, December 9-11,1996 from the regrouping into one group of the former WGs: 1(Science), 2 (Data exchange) and 3 (Mission Design and Planning), established at the start of Phase 2 in 1986/87.

Purview: Coordination of the scientific aims, of mission planning and profiles, and of data exchange of the various missions dedicated to Solar Terrestrial Science of the member Agencies. Four scientific campaigns were defined and have, and are, being carried out to address very specific scientific questions which could only be solved by coordinated simultaneous multispacecraft observations in certain periods of time, that also could include periods when suitable observations are made from the ground. Four Workshops were held in the period 1992-94 to define and set up the campaigns and reports were issued.

Recent and future meetings:
Bern, Switzerland, October 6, 1998 (in conjunction with 18th Plenary)
Boston, USA, June 1, 1999 (during AGU)
Okinawa, Japan, November 16,1999 (in conjunction with 19th Plenary)

Accomplishments: Campaign 1 has already resulted in about 20 papers and presentations in 1998 at the 4th International Conference on Substorms, at COSPAR and EGS, at the NATO research workshop (Slovakia), and at the ISTP Workshop at RAL (UK). Results of Campaign 2 were also presented at RAL (1998), and those of Campaign 3 at the ESLAB Symposium in September 1997 and papers have and are appearing in the relevant journals. Campaign 4 was discussed at a workshop at ISSI in 1996 and key results reported in a paper byNeugebauer et al in JGR (1998).
 

Working Group 3: Data Archiving

Established at the 16th Plenary in the USA, December 9-11, 1996

Terms of reference (approved by IACG at 17th plenary in Moscow, Dec. 1997):
to recommend policies, standards, procedures and practices in science data archiving activities i0n support of the other IACG WGs and Panels.

Recent and future meetings:
Bern, October 1998 (in conjunction with 18th plenary)
GSFC/NASA, April 27, 1999 (sub-set during Solar WS)
November 1999. (TBC)
 

Working Group 4:Tracking, Commanding and Data Acquisition

Established at the 17th Plenary in Moscow, December 1997.

Purview: to study the broad spectrum of interoperability between the member agencies to include navigation commanding, data acquisition, frequency allocation etc.

Recent and future meetings:
Bern, October 6, 1998 (in conjunction with 18th plenary)
ESTEC/ESA, June 24-25, 1999 (ESA, NASA, ISAS).
JPL/NASA, November 11-12, 1999.
 

Panel 1: High Energy Astrophysics

Established in 1986/87 as Panel 3 and renamed at the 16th Plenary in Port Canaveral, December 1996.

Purview: to survey and maintain information flow among the member agencies on projects in high energy astrophysics in order to enhance complementarity among the missions and to emphasize common aspects and data requirements.

Recent and future meetings:
Bern, October 6, 1998 (in conjunction with 18th plenary)
Okinawa, Japan, November 16, 1999 (in conjunction with the 19th Plenary)
 

Panel 2: IR/Sub-mm Astronomy

Established at the 16th Plenary in Port Canaveral, December 1996.

Terms of reference/prime activities (approved by IACG at 17th Plenary in Moscow, December 1997):
coordination of “Key Projects” to optimize for specific strengths.
coordination of multiple IR/sub-mm contributions to the Near Earth Objects data base in the Planetary Data System
coordination of Symposia, workshops, etc. to enhance IR/sub-mm campaigns

Meetings:
 

Panel 3: Space VLBI

Established in 1986/87 as Panel 1 and renamed and redefined at the 17th Plenary in Moscow 1997.

Terms of reference/work plan (approved by IACG at 17th Plenary in Moscow, December 1997):
transfer of flight operations lessons learned from VSOP experience to future projects.
folding of science results into technical influence of future mission design
recommendation of standards for both space and ground VLBI systems
recommendation of data link frequency allocations
recommendation of target goals for supporting technology  developments

Recent and future meetings:

Bern, October 6, 1998 (in conjunction with 18th plenary)
Toronto/URSI, August 21, 1999
Moscow/ASTRO Space Centre, October 7, 1999
Okinawa, November16, 1999 (in conjunction with the 19th Plenary)
 

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