Post-launch Support for UK continued involvement in the Japanese Hinode Mission

Hinode是日本宇宙航空研究所/日本宇宙航空研究开发机构的一个航天器，于2006年9月发射。该使命是日本/美国/英国的使命，研究太阳。Hinode旨在回答磁场如何形成并与大气相互作用以创造我们在太阳上观察到的活动的基本问题。这随后涉及对日地系统有影响的所有现象，例如太阳风的形成（包括慢风和快风）、耀斑和日冕物质抛射的触发以及暗条和双辉的形成和维持。Hinode在使命的前2年非常成功地满足了其所有使命要求。事实上，在运行的第二年的出版率远远超过哈勃在同一时期。该建议要求联合王国继续参与极紫外成像光谱仪的操作、校准、数据存档和社区支持等使命。

Hinode is an ISAS/JAXA spacecraft that was launched in September 2006. The mission is a Japan/US/UK mission that studies the Sun. Hinode is designed to answer the fundamental question of how magnetic fields are formed and interact with the atmosphere to create the activity that we observe on the Sun. This subsequently addresses all phenomena that have an impact on the Sun-Earth system, such as the formation of the solar winds (both slow and fast), triggering of flares and coronal mass ejections, and formation and maintenance of filaments and prominences. Hinode has been extremely successful fulfilling all of its mission requirements in the first 2 years of the mission. Indeed the publication rate in the second year of operation far exceeds that of Hubble during the same time period. This proposal is for continued involvement of the UK in the mission in terms of operating, calibrating, data archive and community support for the EUV Imaging Spectrometer.