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Science 16 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5388, pp. 393 - 395
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5388.393b
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News of the Week

SOLAR ASTRONOMY:
Recovered SOHO Passes Health Check

Alexander Hellemans

Although it spent a couple of months out of contact with Earth, spinning out of control and exposed to extremes of temperature, the hugely successful Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) appears to have come through its ordeal unscathed. As Science went to press, seven of the 12 instruments on board had been switched on successfully and recommissioning is complete for four of them, reports the European Space Agency's Project Scientist for SOHO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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