Space telescope
SOHO
ESA · NASA · launched 1995
Watching the Sun from L1 since 1996; its coronagraph sees coronal mass ejections.
Right now · as of
Sun–Earth L1
1.41 million km from Earth; a signal takes 4.7 s
148 million km from the Sun, moving at 0.41 km/s relative to Earth
Open in 3DSolar and Heliospheric Observatory
European space observatory
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on 2 December 1995, to study the Sun. It has also discovered more than 5,000 comets. It began normal operations in May 1996. It is a joint project between the ESA and NASA.
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Facts
- What it is
- Space telescope
- Agency
- ESA · NASA
- Launched
- December 2, 1995
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral LC-36B
- International designator
- 1995-065A
- 3D model
- NASA