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Orbiting Solar Observatory
satellite
Also known as: OSO
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space exploration
- In space exploration: Solar and space physics
…undertaken by a series of Orbiting Solar Observatory satellites (launched 1962–75) and the astronaut crews of the Skylab space station in 1973–74, using that facility’s Apollo Telescope Mount. These were followed by the Solar Maximum Mission satellite (launched 1980). ESA developed the Ulysses mission (1990) to explore the Sun’s polar…
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ultraviolet astronomy
- In ultraviolet astronomy
These include eight Orbiting Solar Observatories, launched from 1962 to 1975 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which enabled astronomers to obtain thousands of ultraviolet spectra of the Sun’s corona. Another series of U.S. satellites, known as Orbiting Astronomical Observatories, in service from 1968 to…
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