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- Solar-B (Hinode) is an international mission to study our nearest star, the sun. To accomplish this, the Solar-B mission includes a suite of three science instruments -- the Solar Optical Telescope, X-ray Telescope and Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer. SOLAR-B is the third solar physics satellite of JAXA which was approved as a successor of the highly successful Japan/US/UK YOHKOH (SOLAR-A) collaboration. Together, these instruments will study the generation, transport, and dissipation of magnetic energy from the photosphere to the corona and will record how energy stored in the sun's magnetic field is released, either gradually or violently, as the field rises into the sun?s outer atmosphere. Led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Solar-B mission is a collaboration between the space agencies of Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. NASA helped in the development, funding and assembly of the spacecraft?s three science instruments. Solar-B is part of the Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) Program within the Heliophysics Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Solar Terrestrial Probes Program is managed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., managed the development of instrument components provided by NASA, with additional support by academia and industry. Group: Platform_Details Entry_ID: HINODE Group: Platform_Identification Platform_Category: Solar/Space Observation Satellites Short_Name: HINODE Long_Name: Hinode (Solar-B) End_Group Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names Short_Name: Solar-B Short_Name: 29479 Short_Name: 2006-041A End_Group Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments Short_Name: SOT Short_Name: EIS Short_Name: XRT End_Group Group: Orbit Orbit_Inclination: 98.3 degrees Period: 94.54 m Perigee: 318 km Apogee: 675 km Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous End_Group Creation_Date: 2007-02-15 Online_Resource: http://solar-b.nao.ac.jp/index_e.shtml Online_Resource: http://solarb.msfc.nasa.gov/ Online_Resource: http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/home/solar/ Online_Resource: http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/e/enterp/missions/hinode/index.shtml Sample_Image: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/spacecraft/solar_b.jpg Group: Platform_Logistics Launch_Date: 2006-09-22 Launch_Site: Uchinoura Space Center, Japan Design_Life: 3 years Primary_Sponsor: NASA Primary_Sponsor: JAXA End_Group End_Group
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