As previously advertised there will be the first UK Solar Orbiter working group taking place at the RAS, Burlington House on 23 September. All are welcome, please come along to see how mission operations will be planned to achieve the science objectives, and how the UK community can contribute to this activity before and after launch.

The start time will be 10:00. There will be no lunch or coffee ordered, but as you’re aware there are plenty of places close to hand.

10:00-11:00
ESAC: Yannis Zouganelis (Solar Orbiter deputy project scientist) and the operations team will describe the following as a background:
science goals of the mission
instrument capabilities
constraints of mission/instruments

Following this we will have 10 min invited talks from the community on the science goals of Solar Orbiter, from the in-situ and remote sensing perspectives.
These will be followed by 20 mins of discussion of each goal on how we achieve the science through different observing methods.
11:00-11:45 solar wind origin (David Burgess, Giulio Del Zanna) 45 mins
(10+10+25 discussion)

11:45-12:30 transient events (Mat Owens, Huw Morgan)

12:30-13:30 lunch

13:30-14:15 energetic particles (Eduard Kontar, Silvia Dalla)

14:15-14:45 dynamo (Bill Chaplin) 30 mins

14:45-16:00 wrap-up discussion, including next working group meeting.
How to involve/progress modelling to prepare us for the mission, how to get support for individuals to attend meetings.

Louise Harra, Andrzej Fludra, Chris Owen, Tim Horbury