SOHO spacecraft | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-28

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_and_Heliospheric_Observatory


00:01:41 1 Scientific objectives
00:02:38 2 Orbit
00:03:57 3 Communication with Earth
00:05:29 4 Near loss of SOHO
00:08:58 5 Instruments
00:12:20 5.1 Public availability of images
00:14:12 5.2 Comet discovery
00:16:26 5.3 Instrument contributors
00:17:18 6 See also



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The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Astrium) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas II AS launch vehicle on December 2, 1995 to study the Sun. SOHO has also discovered over 3,000 comets. It began normal operations in May 1996. It is a joint project of international cooperation between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. Originally planned as a two-year mission, SOHO continues to operate after over 20 years in space: the mission is extended until the end of 2020 with a likely extension until 2022.In addition to its scientific mission, it is the main source of near-real-time solar data for space weather prediction. Along with the GGS Wind, Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) and DSCOVR, SOHO is one of four spacecraft in the vicinity of the Earth–Sun L1 point, a point of gravitational balance located approximately 0.99 astronomical unit (AU)s from the Sun and 0.01 AU from the Earth. In addition to its scientific contributions, SOHO is distinguished by being the first three-axis-stabilized spacecraft to use its reaction wheels as a kind of virtual gyroscope; the technique was adopted after an on-board emergency in 1998 that nearly resulted in the loss of the spacecraft.