Fred Brown                          October 26, 1995 Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301-286-7277)
fred.brown@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov

Don Savage
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.        (Phone: 202/358-1779)

RELEASE # 95-199
NOTE TO EDITORS:  
SOHO PRELAUNCH SCIENCE BRIEFINGS SCHEDULED

News media are invited to participate in a prelaunch science briefing on the upcoming 
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO ) mission Tuesday, Oct. 31, at 9:30 a.m. at 
NASA's Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Md.
   

The SOHO spacecraft is planned to be launched November 23 on an Atlas IIAS rocket from 
Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla. and will carry twelve instruments developed by international 
teams of scientists. SOHO is a project of international cooperation mission between the 
European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA.     

Participants in the briefing will be:

Dr. Roger Bonnet, Director of the Scientific Programme, ESA Headquarters Paris 
Dr. Wesley Huntress, Jr., Associate Administrator, Office of Space Science, NASA   
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 
Dr. Vincente Domingo, ESA SOHO Project Scientist Dr. Art Poland, NASA SOHO 
Project Scientist
Dr. Richard Harrison, Principal Investigator for the CDS Instrument Dr. Philip Scherrer, 
Principal Investigator for the MDI/SOI Instrument

The briefing will be held at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Visitor Center located on Soil 
Conservation Road.  Media planning to cover this event from Goddard should call Jim Sahli 
or Fred Brown at (301) 286-8955. NASA Television will carry the briefings live on Spacenet 2, 
Transponder 5, Channel 9 at 69 degrees West longitude.  The transponder frequency is 3880 
MHz and the audio subcarrier is 6.8 MHz. The polarization is horizontal.