STEREO

Solar observation mission (2006–present)

STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) is a solar observation mission. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched in 2006 into orbits around the Sun that cause them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth. This enables stereoscopic imaging of the Sun and solar phenomena, such as coronal mass ejections.

Mission type	Solar observation +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Operator	NASA +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
COSPAR ID	STEREO-A: 2006-047A STEREO-B: 2006-047B +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
SATCAT no.	STEREO-A: 29510 STEREO-B: 29511 +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Website	http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://stereo.jhuapl.edu/ +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Mission duration	Planned: 2 years STEREO-A Elapsed: 13 years, 2 months, 12 days STEREO-B Final: 9 years, 10 months, 27 days +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

SPACECRAFT PROPERTIES

Manufacturer	Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Launch mass	619 kg (1,364 lb) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Dry mass	547 kg (1,206 lb) +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Dimensions	1.14 × 2.03 × 6.47 m 3.75 × 6.67 × 21.24 ft +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Power	475 W +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

EXPEDITION

CREW

START OF MISSION

Launch date	October 26, 2006, 00:52 (2006-10-26UTC00:52) UTC +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Rocket	Delta II 7925-10L +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Launch site	Cape Canaveral SLC-17B +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Contractor	United Launch Alliance +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

END OF MISSION

Last contact

STEREO-B: September 23, 2016

ORBITAL PARAMETERS

Reference system	Heliocentric +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Period	STEREO-A: 346 days STEREO-B: 388 days +info/source this text will appear in brackets e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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