Solar Missions Launched Before Aditya-L1

Aditya-L1

India is launching Aditya-L1 as its first solar mission but before India, many other countries have had their solar mission.

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Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) by NASA and ESA launched in December 1995.

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Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) was launched in October 2006.

Japan

Hinode (Solar-B) is a Japanese mission launched in September 2006.

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Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was launched in February 2010.

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Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph was launched in June 2013.

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Parker Solar Probe was launched in August 2018.

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Solar Orbiter was launched in February 2020 by NASA and ESA.