Deriving Plasma Densities from Controlled Spacecraft Potential Data

Turbulence Analysis in the Magnetosheath

Two spacecraft flew to Venus

Last year in October and December BepiColombo (BC) and Solar Orbiter (SO) had a Venus flyby as a gravity assist manoeuvre to get at their final target (BC) or final orbit (SO).

First results from Solar Orbiter and Bepi Colombo on solar coronal mass ejections

Launched in February 2020, the magnetometer on Solar Orbiter has started taking data in April 2020 and immediately observed a stealth coronal mass ejection in situ on 19 April 2020, at 0.8 AU and only 4° away from the Sun-Earth line. In situ…

Improving Understanding and Assessment of the Ambient Solar Wind

The ambient solar wind flows and fields influence the dynamics of coronal mass ejections in space and are of pivotal importance in shaping Earth's space weather environment.

Grad–Shafranov reconstruction of the magnetic configuration in the reconnection X-point vicinity in compressible plasma

The reconstruction problem for steady symmetrical two-dimensional magnetic reconnection is addressed in the frame of a two-fluid approximation with neglected ion current. This approach yields Poisson’s equation for the magnetic potential of the…