Race for Sun heats up: These are the various solar missions

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• arker Solar Probe in August 2018

• February 2020, the NASA joined hands with the European Space Agency (ESA) and launched The Solar Orbiter to collect data to find out how the Sun created and controlled the constantly changing space environment throughout the solar system.

• Other active solar missions by the NASA are Advanced Composition Explorer launched in August, 1997; Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory in October, 2006; Solar Dynamics Observatory in February, 2010; and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph launched in June, 2013.

• December, 1995, NASA, ESA and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) jointly launched the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).

• Hinotori (ASTRO-A), in 1981.

• Yohkoh (SOLAR-A) launched in 1991; SOHO (along with NASA and ESA) in 1995; and Transient Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE), along with NASA, in 1998.

• 2006, Hinode (SOLAR-B)

• 1990, the ESA launched Ulysses

• ASA and the JAXA, the ESA launched Proba-2 i

• Proba stands for Project for On-Board Autonomy.

• ESA include Proba-3, scheduled for 2024 and Smile, scheduled for 2025.

• Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S)