STEREO-A

STEREO-A — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore STEREO-A in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

One of NASA’s twin solar observatories, STEREO-A circles the Sun slightly faster than Earth, drifting around to see solar storms side-on. It swung back past Earth in 2023; its twin, STEREO-B, fell silent in 2014.

Launched
26 Oct 2006
Status
Active — watching the Sun from a shifting vantage point

Explore STEREO-A in 3D

Explore STEREO-A along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.

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