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The Advanced Orbiting Solar Observatory (AOSO) program was developed in the mid 1960s as a more advanced version of the OSO series. Conceived as a polar-orbiting satellite system, these spacecraft would continuously monitor the Sun and surrounding environment with detectors and electronic imaging ranging from x-rays to visual light.
OSO 3 (Orbiting Solar Observatory 3), or Third Orbiting Solar Observatory [2] [3] (known as OSO E2 before launch) was launched on March 8, 1967, into a nearly circular orbit of mean altitude 550 km, inclined at 33° to the equatorial plane. Its on-board tape recorder failed on June 28, 1968, allowing only the acquisition of sparse real-time ...
Animation of Solar Dynamics Observatory 's trajectory from 11 February 2010 to 11 April 2010 Solar Dynamics Observatory · Earth SDO then underwent a series of orbit-raising maneuvers over a few weeks which adjusted its orbit until the spacecraft reached its planned circular , geosynchronous orbit at an altitude of 35,789 km (22,238 mi), at 102 ...
Ball Aerospace began building pointing controls for military rockets in 1956. The aerospace part of the Ball Corporation was then known as Ball Brothers Research Corporation, and later won a contract to build some of NASA's first spacecraft, the Orbiting Solar Observatory satellites. The company has been responsible for numerous technological ...
Solar Dynamics Observatory – NASA mission, launched in 2010 to SE-L1; Solar and Heliospheric Observatory – European space observatory; Solar Sentinels – A 2006 concept for a series of missions to the Sun; Space sunshade – Earth shield to reduce sunlight; STEREO – Solar observation mission (2006–present)
OSO 7 or Orbiting Solar Observatory 7 (NSSDC ID: 1971-083A), before launch known as OSO H is the seventh in the series of American Orbiting Solar Observatory satellites launched by NASA between 1962 and 1975. [2]
A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit around the Earth as a “mini-moon” later this month before the space rock departs into other parts of the solar system.. The 10m-wide asteroid, dubbed ...
The Solar Dynamics Observatory was launched in 2010 and monitors the Sun from a geosynchronous orbit around Earth. [8] Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket and will reach a perihelion of 0.046 AU in 2025, making it the closest-orbiting manmade satellite as the first spacecraft to fly low into the solar corona. [9]