DEARMOON PROJECT
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Heliophysics
State: Successful
Place: Sun
Operator: ISAS / NASA / PPARC
Date
Start:
Mission Ending
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." - Jim Henson
Rocket
Rocket: Mu-3S-II
Kind: ISAS / NASA / PPARC
Mass: 390 kilograms (860 lb)
Launch Site: Kagoshima M1
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Geocentric
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Yohkoh (ようこう, Sunbeam in Japanese), known before launch as Solar-A, was a Solar observatory spacecraft of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan), in collaboration with space agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom. It was launched into Earth orbit on August 30, 1991 by the M-3SII rocket from Kagoshima Space Center. It took its first soft X-ray image on September 13, 1991 21:53:40, and movie representations of the X-ray corona over 1991-2001 are available at the Yohkoh Legacy site.
