The Orbiting Solar Observatory (abbreviated OSO) Program was the name of a series of American space telescopes primarily intended to study the Sun, though...
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OSO 3 (redirect from Third Orbiting Solar Observatory)
OSO 3 (Orbiting Solar Observatory 3), or Third Orbiting Solar Observatory (known as OSO E2 before launch) was launched on March 8, 1967, into a nearly...
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The Solar Polar Orbit Observatory (SPO) is a planned space probe aimed at studying the Sun at various latitudes. It will be operated by the China National...
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The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2, nicknamed Stargazer) was the first successful space telescope (first space telescope being OAO-1, which...
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The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi...
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supervision of Lyman Spitzer. Orbiting Astronomical Observatory Orbiting Solar Observatory "Orbiting Astronomical Observatory-C to be terminated". Goddard...
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OSO 7 (redirect from Seventh Orbiting Solar Observatory)
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...
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Sun-synchronous orbit, with an orbital period of around 94 minutes. Xuntian Clark, Stephen (18 October 2021). "China launches orbiting solar observatory". Spaceflight...
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responsible for starting the series of Orbiting Solar Observatories (OSOs) that produced many of the advances in solar physics and astrophysics in the 1960s...
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Space telescope (redirect from Orbiting observatory)
1946, the first operational telescopes were the American Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, OAO-2 launched in 1968, and the Soviet Orion 1 ultraviolet...
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The Solar Orbiter (SolO) is a Sun-observing probe developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)...
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The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA mission which has been observing the Sun since 2010. Launched on 11 February 2010, the observatory is part...
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other Indian Space Research Institutes. It is orbiting at about 1.5 million km from Earth in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point 1 (L1) between the...
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were detected for the first time, on both 4 and 7 August, by the Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO 7). The broad spectrum electromagnetic emissions of the largest...
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describing the Orbiting Observatory series of spacecraft, such as Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO), Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO), and Orbiting Astronomical...
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Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) Program of NASA refers to the six satellites launched by the United States that were in use from September 1964...
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military aircrew member Ose (demon) or Oso Onsala Space Observatory Orbiting Solar Observatory, series of nine satellites OSO 3 OSO 7 Ottawa Symphony Orchestra...
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The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) satellites were a series of four American space observatories launched by NASA between 1966 and 1972, managed...
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Astronomy and Solar Physics at NASA from 1961 to 1963. During this time, she oversaw the development of the Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO) program,...
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A solar telescope or a solar observatory is a special-purpose telescope used to observe the Sun. Solar telescopes usually detect light with wavelengths...
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Advanced Composition Explorer Parker Solar Probe Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Solar Dynamics Observatory Solar Orbiter WIND (spacecraft) Charles Hyder...
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language spoken in France and Belgium Picard (satellite), an orbiting solar observatory built by CNES Picard (grape), an alternative name for several...
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was shot down in orbit during an Air Force ASM-135 ASAT test. The platform was of the Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO) type, with a solar-oriented sail and...
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United States Congress. The target was the Solwind P78-1, an orbiting solar observatory that was launched on 24 February 1979. On 13 September 1985, Wilbert...
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candidate short-period sub-Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri" (PDF). Astronomy & Astrophysics. 658. European Southern Observatory: 17. arXiv:2202.05188. Bibcode:2022A&A...
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Coronal loop (redirect from Solar coronal loop)
the Orbiting Solar Observatory series (OSO-1 to OSO-8), Skylab, and the Solar Maximum Mission (the first observatory to last the majority of a solar cycle:...
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won a contract to build some of NASA's first spacecraft, the Orbiting Solar Observatory satellites. The company has been responsible for numerous technological...
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century BCE, Zhou dynasty astronomical observatory (灵台) in Fenghao (today's Xi'an), China Thirteen Towers solar observatory, Chankillo, Peru Antikythera Mechanism...
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notable Earth-orbiting craft.[vague] It does not include: Centuries of terrestrial telescopic observation. The great majority of Earth-orbiting satellites...
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Originally, solar-type was the closest that similarity to the Sun could be defined. Later, more precise measurement techniques and improved observatories allowed...
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