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SOHO, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, is a joint ESA/NASA mission to study the sun from its interior to, and including, the solar wind in interplanetary space. It is currently scheduled for launch in 1995. In this paper a mission overview is given, comprising scientific objectives, payload, spacecraft, operations, and data and ground system.
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Fleck, B. (1995). The SOHO mission. In: Benz, A.O., Krüger, A. (eds) Coronal Magnetic Energy Releases. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 444. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59109-5_53
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