Orbiting Solar Observatory
Abstract
Series of eight NASA satellites launched 1962-75. Designed to study the Sun at ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths. OSO-1 and 3 also carried gamma ray instruments for extrasolar studies. Most successful was OSO-8 which operated for more than three years and studied the diffuse cosmic x-ray background....
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1888/0333750888/4733
- Bibcode:
- 2000eaa..bookE4733.
- Keywords:
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- Space Missions;
- Solar System Missions