To be held from May 25th through the 29th at the Hotel Vesuvio in Sorrento, Italy, is the European Space Agency's Third Solar Orbiter Workshop.

The 3rd Solar Orbiter Workshop is organized around sessions addressing the missions main objectives and the instrumental approaches and observational strategies to achieve them with the envisaged payload. A specific focus of the meeting will be the exploitation of the unique orbit and vantage point of Solar Orbiter, linking remote-sensing with in situ observations. There will be a session devoted to operational aspects and to review instrumental and technological issues of the payload. Specific topics of the workshop include:

• Consolidation of the excellent and unique science of Solar Orbiter, in the light of the scientific results of recent solar physics missions and the perspectives of future ones
• Complementarity of the scientific objectives of Solar Orbiter and Solar Probe Plus
• Mission synergies with JAXA's Solar-C and NASA's SDO
• Importance of Solar Orbiter for the development of the European and international solar and heliospheric communities: science and technology issues
• Preparation of the ground for a global inter-agency international collaboration
• Preparation for a competition in the Cosmic Vision selection procedure

For further information, please select the workshop's homepage graphic above.