Back المرصد الشمسي المداري Arabic Orbiting Solar Observatory Catalan Orbiting Solar Observatory German Orbiting Solar Observatory Spanish Orbiting Solar Observatory French Orbiting Solar Observatory Galician Orbiting Solar Observatory HE Orbiting Solar Observatory Hungarian Orbiting Solar Observatory Italian 太陽観測衛星 Japanese
The Orbiting Solar Observatory (abbreviated OSO) Program was the name of a series of American space telescopes primarily intended to study the Sun, though they also included important non-solar experiments. Eight were launched successfully into low Earth orbit by NASA between 1962 and 1975 using Delta rockets. Their primary mission was to observe an 11-year sun spot cycle in UV and X-ray spectra. The initial seven (OSO 1–7) were built by Ball Aerospace, then known as Ball Brothers Research Corporation (BBRC), in Boulder, Colorado.[1] OSO 8 was built by Hughes Space and Communications Company, in Culver City, California.
- ^ Todd Neff (2010) From Jars to the Stars: How Ball Came to Build a Comet-Hunting Machine Archived 18 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine Denver, CO.: Earthview Media.