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A remarkable story of excitement, drama, and discovery started when the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) was launched on 1980 February 14. The launch was on a Thor Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral and, remarkably, was only a few months behind the original schedule set five years earlier. Fortunately for all those involved, the Sun had just passed the peak of activity cycle #21, so members of the instrument teams could look forward to several years when flare-related activity was expected to be high.
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Strong, K.T., Schmelz, J.T. (1999). The Solar Maximum Mission. In: Strong, K.T., Saba, J.L.R., Haisch, B.M., Schmelz, J.T. (eds) The Many Faces of the Sun. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1442-7_1
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