SOHO

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Astrium) that was launched on a  AS launch vehicle on December 2, 1995, to study the, and has discovered over 3000. It began normal operations in May 1996. It is a joint project of international cooperation between the European Space Agency and. Originally planned as a two-year mission, SOHO continues to operate after over 20 years in. In November 2016, a mission extension lasting until December 2018 was approved.
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