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ISSI Game Changers: 25 Years of SOHO and First Glimpses of Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter

talking sun There is a problem with the motor controlling the High Gain Antenna on the SOHO spacecraft.   Science data coverage may be less than complete for 1-2 weeks every 90 days (when the spacecraft gets 'flipped').   The next "keyhole" period can be found in this table.

5 minute and 30 second PM data in ascii format
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An energetic particle flare monitor using the PM background rate
An X-ray flare monitor using data from the CELIAS/SEM sensor

Most Recent Shock Candidates:
Date UT day of year F/R Zone Confidence Level
6 Jan 2021 0525 6 fwd 1 42%
10 Dec 2020 0132 345 fwd 4 99%
5 Dec 2020 1145 340 fwd 3 92%

Current time in UTC

Data ending at 2303 GMT on Mar 5, 2021 (ascii data available)

Data ending at 2155 GMT on Mar 4, 2021 (ascii data available)

The Proton Monitor (PM) is one of the scientific sensors on the SOHO spacecraft. What's being plotted??
the PM sensor
the SOHO Spacecraft

Where is SoHO?

The predicted position of the SOHO spacecraft in the GSE coordinate system (X,Y,Z) in Earth radii at 2300 GMT on
Mar 5, 2021:		 Daily Orbit Data:

Launch through 1996,  1997,  1998,  1999,  2000,  2001,  2002, 

2003,  2004,  2005,  2006,  2007,  2008  2009  2010  2011 

2012  2013  2014  2015  2016  2017  2018  2019  2019  2020  2021 
( 229, 99, -8)

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