STEREO mission celebrates five incredible years of science
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 07:31
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- On October 25, 2006 a Delta II rocket launched from Cape Canaveral carrying two nearly identical spacecraft. Each satellite was one half of a mission entitled Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) and they were destined to do something never done before see the entire sun simultaneously.