Helios (spacecraft) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-26

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00:01:57 1 Structure
00:04:18 2 Power
00:05:15 3 Thermal control
00:08:14 4 Telecommunications system
00:09:56 5 Attitude control
00:10:57 6 Board computer and data storage
00:11:37 7 Scientific instrumentation
00:17:24 8 Mission
00:17:33 8.1 iHelios-A/i
00:19:53 8.2 iHelios-B/i
00:22:41 8.3 End of operations
00:24:00 9 Results
00:28:20 10 Mission background
00:28:29 10.1 Scientific instruments
00:28:39 11 Mission profile
00:28:49 11.1 Launch and trajectory
00:28:59 11.2 Timeline of travel
00:29:08 12 Current status
00:29:27 13 See also



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SUMMARY
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Helios-A and Helios-B (also known as Helios 1 and Helios 2) are a pair of probes launched into heliocentric orbit for the purpose of studying solar processes. A joint venture of West Germany's space agency DFVLR (70 percent share) and NASA (30 percent), the probes were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on December 10, 1974, and January 15, 1976, respectively. Built by the main contractor Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, they were the first spaceprobes built outside both the United States and the Soviet Union to leave Earth orbit. 
The probes set a maximum speed record for spacecraft of 157,078 mph (70,220 m/s). Helios-B flew 3,000,000 kilometres (1,900,000 mi) closer to the Sun than Helios-A, achieving perihelion on April 17, 1976, at a record distance of 43.432 million km (26,987,000 mi; 0.29032 AU), closer than the orbit of Mercury. Helios-B was sent into orbit 13 months after the launch of Helios-A. The Helios space probes completed their primary missions by the early 1980s, and continued to send data up to 1985.
The probes are no longer functional but remain in their elliptical orbits around the Sun.