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Satellite Programme:
Solar Maximum Mission
Programme details
Programme description
Single-satellite programme, addressing solar physics.
USA programme: NASA responsible of development and operations, in collaboration with a wide number of scientific institutes.
The satellite is actively stabilised over 3 axes.
The design lifetime is 5 years.
The orbit is drifting, in low inclination.
See detailed description at http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov//solarmax.html .
Data circulation
Onboard stored and real-time data downlinked to the NASA stations network. Use of TDRSS introduced during the exploitation phase.
Data processed by the institutes providing the instruments, and eventually distributed by NASA/GSFC.
Agencies
NASA
Programme lifetime
1980 - 1989
Associated satellites and instruments
Note: red tag => no longer operational , green tag => operational
, blue tag => planned
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 released
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 was released including new features related to Gap Analysis and satellite status information. With version 2.6 OSCAR/Space has a new URL; https://space.oscar.wmo.int . Please read more via the link here .