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    The Solar Maximum Mission satellite (or SolarMax) was designed to investigate Solar phenomena, particularly solar flares. It was launched on February...
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    a Space Shuttle mission. During the mission, Challenger's crew captured and repaired the malfunctioning Solar Maximum Mission ("Solar Max") satellite...
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    holes, now known to be intimately associated with the solar wind. In 1980, the Solar Maximum Mission probes were launched by NASA. This spacecraft was designed...
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    the project scientist of the Solar Maximum Mission, principal investigator of six science instruments, the head of the Solar Physics Branch, and the associate...
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    the defective spacecraft: The first modular craft to fly was the Solar Maximum Mission satellite, launched in 1980 to conduct astronomical observations...
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    March 15, 1979. The Solar Maximum Mission satellite (or SolarMax) was designed to investigate solar phenomena, particularly solar flares. It was launched...
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  • Solar Maximum Mission, a satellite SOLAR (ISS), an observatory on International Space Station "Solar" (composition), attributed to Miles Davis Solar (Red...
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    Composition Explorer (ACE), launched August 1997, operational Solar Maximum Mission (SolarMax), launched February 1980, completed – suffered partial failure...
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    Satellite (ERBS), VIRGO on the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SoHO) and the ACRIM instruments on the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM), Upper Atmosphere Research...
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    series (OSO-1 to OSO-8), Skylab, and the Solar Maximum Mission (the first observatory to last the majority of a solar cycle: from 1980 to 1989) were able to...
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