Solar Maximum Mission (Project)
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Name (Latin)
Solar Maximum Mission (Project)
Other forms of name
SMM (Project)
MARC
MARC
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Sources of Information
- NASA's Solar Maximum Mission, 1987:p. vii (SMM was supported by a worldwide observatory coordination at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. where solar physicists from the U.S. and several European nations gathered)
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Smm
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA-MSFC), Public domain
Wikipedia description:
The Solar Maximum Mission satellite (or SolarMax) was designed to investigate Solar phenomena, particularly solar flares. It was launched on February 14, 1980. The SMM was the first satellite based on the Multimission Modular Spacecraft bus manufactured by Fairchild Industries, a platform which was later used for Landsat 4 and Landsat 5 as well as the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. After an attitude control failure in November 1980 it was put in standby mode until April 1984 when it was repaired by a Shuttle mission. The Solar Maximum Mission ended on December 2, 1989, when the spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere and burned up over the Indian Ocean.
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