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OSO 7

(Orbiting Solar Observatory 7, OSO H)
(1970s observatory-satellite for viewing the Sun)

OSO 7 (for Orbiting Solar Observatory 7) was a NASA satellite in service from 1971 to 1974 for solar observation, the seventh of the eight successful satellites in NASA's Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO) program. (One additional OSO satellite was unsuccessful due to a rocket mishap during deployment.) OSO 7 instruments included:

Its observation included non-Solar targets as well, 185 listed in the 1979 MIT/OSO 7 Catalog of X-ray Sources.

(telescope,solar,spacecraft,past,NASA)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSO_7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Solar_Observatory
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1971-083A
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/oso7/oso7.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1973IAUS...55...51P/abstract
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/oso-7.htm
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/observatories/history/missions/oso.html
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MXMX 1716-31MIT Cat X-ray sourceshttps://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1979ApJS...39..573M/abstract

Referenced by pages:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
solar physics
solar telescope
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