1986–2000: Stations, Global Partnerships and Flagship Observatories
SOHO
Long-running solar and heliospheric observatory.
Era 3 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 2 Dec 1995
- Lead / partner
- ESA / NASA
- Target
- Sun–Earth L1
- Category
- Solar observatory
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- Atlas IIAS
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- Sun–Earth L1 orbit
- Duration
- 3 years (planned) ''(in progress) ''
Why it happened
SOHO flew during 1986–2000: Stations, Global Partnerships and Flagship Observatories, as part of ESA / NASA's work toward sun–earth l1. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Long-running solar and heliospheric observatory.
Results
Long-running solar and heliospheric observatory.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-22)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog