List of heliophysics missions
This is a list of missions supporting heliophysics, including solar observatory missions, solar orbiters, and spacecraft studying the solar wind.[1] Status as of 09/12/2021.
| Spacecraft | Launch date | Operator | Status | Outcome | Remarks | Carrier rocket |
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| Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite (ACRIMSAT) | 20 December 1999 | NASA | Contact lost 14 December 2013 | |||
| Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) | 25 August 1997 | NASA | Operational | |||
| ADvanced Astronomy for HELIophysics (ADAHELI) | planned | |||||
| Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) | 25 April 2007 | NASA | Operational | |||
| Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses (BARREL) | January 2013 | NASA | Last launched 30 August 2016 | |||
| Cluster | 4 June 1996 | ESA | Failure at launch | |||
| Cluster II | 16 July 2000 | ESA | Operational | |||
| Coupled Ion-Neutral Dynamics Investigations (CINDI) | 16 April 2008 | NASA | Deorbited 28 November 2015 | |||
| Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) | 11 February 2015 | NASA/NOAA | Operational | |||
| Double Star | 29 December 2003 | CNSA/ESA | Deorbited 14 October 2007 | |||
| Equator-S | 2 December 1997 | ISTP/MPE | Contact lost 1 May 1998 | |||
| Explorer 50 (IMP-8) | 26 October 1973 | NASA | Contact lost 7 October 2006 | |||
| Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) | planned | |||||
| Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST) | 21 August 1996 | NASA | Decommissioned 4 May 2009 | |||
| Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) | October 1975 | NASA/NOAA | Operational | |||
| Geotail | 24 July 1992 | ISAS/NASA | Operational | |||
| Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) (aboard SES-14) | 26 January 2018 | NASA | Operational | |||
| Hinode (Solar-B) | 23 September 2006 | JAXA / NASA / PPARC | Operational | |||
| IBEX | 19 October 2008 | NASA | Operational | |||
| IMAGE | 25 March 2000 | NASA | Contact lost 18 December 2005 | |||
| Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) | 27 June 2013 | NASA | Operational | |||
| ISEE-1 | 22 October 1977 | NASA | Deorbited 26 September 1987 | |||
| ISEE-2 | 22 October 1977 | NASA | Deorbited 26 September 1987 | |||
| International Cometary Explorer (ICE) | 12 August 1978 | NASA | Contact lost 16 September 2014 | |||
| Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) | 11 October 2019 | SSL/NASA | Operational | |||
| Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) | 13 March 2015 | NASA | Operational | |||
| Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) | 4 September 1964 | NASA | Last Deorbited 29 August 2020 | |||
| Parker Solar Probe formerly Solar Probe Plus | 12 August 2018 | NASA | Operational | |||
| Polar | 24 February 1996 | NASA | Decommissioned April 28, 2008 | |||
| Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) | planned | |||||
| Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscope Imager (RHESSI) | 5 February 2002 | NASA | Decommissioned 16 August 2018 | |||
| Skylab and the Apollo Telescope Mount | 14 May 1973 | NASA | Deorbited July 11, 1979 | |||
| Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) | 2 December 1995 | ESA/NASA | Operational | |||
| Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX) | 3 July 1992 | NASA/MPE | Deorbited 13 November 2012 | |||
| Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) | 11 February 2010 | NASA | Operational | |||
| Solar Orbiter | 10 February 2020 | ESA/NASA | Operational | |||
| Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SRCE) | 25 January 2003 | NASA/LASP | Decommissioned 25 February 2020 | |||
| Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) | 25 October 2006 | NASA | Operational | |||
| Space Environment Testbeds (on DSX) | 25 June 2019 | AFRL | Decommissioned 31 May 2021 | |||
| Space Technology 5 (ST5) | 22 March 2006 | NASA | Decommissioned June 30, 2006 | |||
| Spartan 201 (STS-87) | 19 November 1997 | NASA | Landed 5 December 1997 | |||
| Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) | 26 February 1998 | LASP | Deorbited 13 December 2003 | |||
| Swarm | 22 November 2013 | ESA | Operational | |||
| Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) | 7 December 2001 | NASA | Operational | |||
| Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) | 17 February 2007 | NASA | Operational | |||
| Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) | 1 April 1998 | NASA | Decommissioned 21 June 2010 | |||
| TWINS A & B | 13 March 2008 | NASA | Operational | |||
| Ulysses | 6 October 1990 | NASA/ESA | Decommissioned 30 June 2009 | |||
| Van Allen Probes formerly Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) | 30 August 2012 | NASA | Decommissioned 2019 | |||
| Voyager | 5 September 1977 | NASA | Operational | |||
| WIND | 1 November 1994 | NASA | Operational | |||
| Yohkoh (Solar-A) | 30 August 1991 | ISAS / NASA / PPARC | Deorbited 12 September 2005 |
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See also
References
- Heliophysics Research - NASA Archived 2016-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
External links
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