(New Mexico, USA)
(designed by K. Cerrillo, 2017 REU student)
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Sacrament Peak Solar Observatory (New Mexico, USA) |
The Hinode satellite and the Sun (designed by K. Cerrillo, 2017 REU student) |
| Yohkoh ("sunshine" in Japanese) |
1991 -- 2001 | Japan/US/UK | 1st CCD on-board, only solar mission early 1990s. movie Loren Acton (MSU) was the PI of US side. (Loren in 1978) |
| SOHO (SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory) |
1996 -- present | ESA/US | L1 mission (Lagrange points)
image1 12 instruments on-board (EIT, LASCO, SUMER, MDI, ...) movie1 movie2 |
| TRACE (Transition Region And Coronal Explorer) |
1998-- 2010 | US |
Sun synchronous orbit ,
launched by airplane, observes the small area of low corona with high spatial resolution. |
| Hinode ("sunrise" in Japanese) |
2006 -- present | Japan/US/UK | SOT (biggest solar optical telescope in space), XRT and EIS movie1 movie2 |
| STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) |
2006 -- present | US | twin spacecrafts before and ahead of Earth in orbit. STEREO orbit, current location (as of 2022/07/18) image 2 angles image-3D Movie1 |
| SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) |
2010 -- present | US | Geo-stationary satellite. AIA, HMI and EVE are on-board. Stable, broad-band telemetry enables 10+ wavelengths, 4096x4096 every 12 sec. movie Solar Monitor |
| IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) |
2013 -- present | US | high resolution spectroscopy in UV range launched by airplane, launch animation sample observation |
| PSP (Parker Solar Probe) |
2018 -- present | US |
Eugene Parker,
Parker Spiral
4 instruments on-board : FIELDS, WISPR, SWEAP and ISIS. PSP instruments, PSP orbit |
| Solar Orbiter | 2020 -- present | ESA/US | orbit_img1,
orbit_img2 , space environment measurements |
| Solar-C | 2025? -- | Japan/US/UK | EUVST |
| Ulysses | 1990 -- 2009 | ESA/US | launched from Space Shuttle Discovery Jupiter swing-by in 1992, observation of Sun's polar region |
