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| - Solar-B (Hinode) is an international mission to study our nearest star, the
sun. To accomplish this, the Solar-B mission includes a suite of three science
instruments -- the Solar Optical Telescope, X-ray Telescope and Extreme
Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer. SOLAR-B is the third solar physics satellite
of JAXA which was approved as a successor of the highly successful Japan/US/UK
YOHKOH (SOLAR-A) collaboration.
Together, these instruments will study the generation, transport, and
dissipation of magnetic energy from the photosphere to the corona and will
record how energy stored in the sun's magnetic field is released, either
gradually or violently, as the field rises into the sun?s outer atmosphere.
Led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Solar-B mission is a
collaboration between the space agencies of Japan, the United States, the
United Kingdom and Europe. NASA helped in the development, funding and assembly
of the spacecraft?s three science instruments. Solar-B is part of the Solar
Terrestrial Probes (STP) Program within the Heliophysics Division of NASA's
Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Solar Terrestrial Probes Program
is managed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NASA's
Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., managed the development of
instrument components provided by NASA, with additional support by academia and
industry.
Group: Platform_Details
Entry_ID: HINODE
Group: Platform_Identification
Platform_Category: Solar/Space Observation Satellites
Short_Name: HINODE
Long_Name: Hinode (Solar-B)
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Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names
Short_Name: Solar-B
Short_Name: 29479
Short_Name: 2006-041A
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Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments
Short_Name: SOT
Short_Name: EIS
Short_Name: XRT
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Group: Orbit
Orbit_Inclination: 98.3 degrees
Period: 94.54 m
Perigee: 318 km
Apogee: 675 km
Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous
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Creation_Date: 2007-02-15
Online_Resource: http://solar-b.nao.ac.jp/index_e.shtml
Online_Resource: http://solarb.msfc.nasa.gov/
Online_Resource: http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/solar/
Online_Resource: http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/hinode/index.shtml
Sample_Image: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/spacecraft/solar_b.jpg
Group: Platform_Logistics
Launch_Date: 2006-09-22
Launch_Site: Uchinoura Space Center, Japan
Design_Life: 3 years
Primary_Sponsor: NASA
Primary_Sponsor: JAXA
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