Monday 18 January 2021, by Milan Maksimovic
The Radio & Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument, on-board the ESA Solar Orbiter spacecraft, provides in-situ and remote sensing measurements of both electrostatic and electromagnetic fields and waves in a broad frequency range, typically from a fraction of Hertz to a few tens of MHz.
RPW is being developed by a consortium composed of the following institutes/agencies:
In addition the Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California Berkeley is strongly contributing to the RPW science throught the science synergy with the FIELDS instrument on the NASA Solar Probe Plus mission.