Active · Active
The active joint ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory studies the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind from the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point.
- Destinations
- Launch vehicle
- Atlas IIAS (Atlas-Centaur)
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, Launch Complex 36B
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Heliophysics
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
SOHO · Spacecraft
Destinations: Sun
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- SOHO: Reconstructed · December 2, 1995 to October 31, 2026
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through September 14, 2026
- SOHO - NASA Science — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- SOHO original spacecraft description — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- SOHO original ancillary data conventions — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- SOHO nominal roll attitude interpretation — NASATechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- SOHO original mission orbit SPK — NASAEphemeris · Supports: mission claims
- Our Sun: Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context