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Solar observatory satellite.
Launched on february 11 2010 the observatory is part of the living with a star lws program.
The mpc names the three comets.
Sdo is designed to help us understand the sun s influence on earth and near earth space by studying the solar atmosphere on small scales of space and time and in many wavelengths simultaneously.
It began normal operations in may 1996.
The solar and heliospheric observatory soho is a spacecraft built by a european industrial consortium led by matra marconi space now airbus defence and space that was launched on a lockheed martin atlas ii as launch vehicle on december 2 1995 to study the sun.
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The solar heliospheric observatory soho project is a cooperative effort between the european space agency esa and nasa.
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Eight were launched successfully into low earth orbit by nasa between 1962 and 1975 using delta rockets.
Soho was designed to study the internal structure of the sun its extensive outer atmosphere and the origin of the solar wind the stream of highly ionized gas that blows continuously outward through the solar system.
It has also discovered over 3 000 comets.
The solar dynamics observatory sdo is a nasa mission which has been observing the sun since 2010.
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The orbiting solar observatory abbreviated oso program was the name of a series of american space telescopes primarily intended to study the sun though they also included important non solar experiments.
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