Solar And Heliospheric Observatory
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| Launch date | December 2, 1995, 10:08 AM GMT+2 |
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| Cost | 1 billion EUR |
| Manufacturers | Matra Marconi Space |
| Launch site | Spaceport Florida Launch Complex 36 |
| LASCO | Large Angle Spectrometer Coronagraph |
| Did you know | More than 1500 scientists in countries all around the world are either directly involved in SOHO's instruments or have used SOHO data in their research programmes. |
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| ID | 1009414 |
About Solar And Heliospheric Observatory
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas II AS launch vehicle on December 2, 1995 to study the Sun. SOHO has also discovered over 3,000 comets. It began normal operations in May 1996.
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Photos
