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Recovery Of SOHO Spacecraft Continues As Investigation Board Releases Final Report

European Space Agency
Press Release No 32-98
Paris, France				31 August 1998

Recovery of SOHO spacecraft continues successfully as Investigation Board
releases final report

Activities to bring the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
spacecraft back to normal operating conditions continue with good
results as the SOHO mission interruption joint ESA/NASA investigation
board today releases its final report analysing the causes that led to
interruption of the spacecraft's observations on 25 June this year.

The delicate recovery activities are being directed by the ESA SOHO
project team from the Operations Centre at NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

On Thursday 3 September at 16:00 hrs (Paris time) and 10:00 hrs
(Washington time), a panel of ESA and NASA specialists will meet the
press in a joint ESA/NASA Press Conference held in parallel at ESA
Headquarters in Paris and NASA Headquarters in Washington.

The panelists in Paris will be: Dr Roger Bonnet, ESA's Director of
Science, Professor Massimo Trella, ESA Inspector General and co-chairman
of the joint ESA/NASA SOHO investigation board.

The panelists at NASA Headquarters will be: Dr Michael Greenfield,
Deputy Associate Administrator for the Office of Safety and Mission
Assurance and SOHO investigation board co-chairman, Dr Joe Gurman, NASA
SOHO Project Scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
(GSFC), Dr Francis Vanderbussche, ESA Head of the SOHO Recovery Team,
GSFC.

At the Press Conference, ESA and NASA specialists will review the
milestones of the recovery plan implemented for SOHO and illustrate the
actions currently being taken to bring the spacecraft back to nominal
operations. An audio link (no video coverage) will enable Paris-based
media representatives to put questions to the NASA specialists in
Washington and vice-versa.

Media representative wishing to attend are kindly requested to complete
the reply form attached and fax it back to ESA Public Relations in Paris
(+33(0)1.53.69.76.90).

For further information, please contact:
ESA Public Relations
8/10, rue Mario Nikis F-75015-PARIS
Tel: +33(0)1.53.69.7155   Fax: +33(0)1.53.69.7690

NASA Public Affairs
Don Savage Headquarters
Washington DC
Tel: +1.202.358.1727

Bill Steigerwald
Goddard Space Flicht Center
Greenbelt, MD
Tel: +1 301.286.5017

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