| * Yohkoh | (1991 -- 2001) | Japan/US/UK | -- | 1st CCD on-board, only solar mission early 1990s. movie |
| * SOHO | (1996 -- present) | ESA/US | -- | L1 mission image1 movie1 movie2 |
| * TRACE | (1998-- 2010) | US | -- | Sun syncronous orbit movie |
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| * Hinode | (2006 -- present) | Japan/US/UK | -- | - Solar Optical Telescope(SOT) : Biggest solar optical telescope in space
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- Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer(EIS) - X-Ray Telescope(XRT) SolarMonitor.org XRT Eclipse on Asahi.com |
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| * STEREO | (2006 -- present) | US | -- | Twin spacecrafts before and ahead of Earth in orbit image1 image2 image3 Movie1 |
| * SDO | (2010 -- present) | US | -- | Geo-stationary satellite, 10+ wavelengths, 4096x4096 every 12 sec movie |
| * IRIS | (2013 -- present) | US | -- | High resolution spectroscopy in UV range |
| * Solar Probe | (2018? --) | US | ||
| * Solar-C | (2022? --) | Japan/US/UK | ||
| * Solar-D | (20??? --) | Japan/US/UK |
Sun's activity has a huge impact on our daily life.
Aurora(Northern Light) from Bozeman
