Prominence monitors, coronagraphs, and interplanetary scintillation arrays can provide useful correlative measurements of temperature, density and velocity diagnosics of the lower and upper corona. Disk or limb observations that aid in identifying the origins of such rays would be extremely useful. Ca K-line observations of network features are valuable as well. With simultaneous, multiwavelength observations, we hope to obtain as complete as possible a description of the coronal regions where coronal heating and acceleration of the solar wind is believed to take place. The Spartan 201 satellite will be deployed by the space shuttle on Mission STS-69 which has a launch date scheduled for 7 September 1995.
Primary targets are the north polar hole and the streamer belt surrounding the polar coronal holes.
Changes to the final observing plan are expected to be minor and will be provided on the day of Spartan deployment.