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STEREO, the Glossary

STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) is a solar observation mission.^[1]

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Discoveries by STEREO
Missions to the Sun
Solar space observatories
Space probes launched in 2006
Space weather
Twin satellites

Advanced Composition Explorer

Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE or Explorer 71) is a NASA Explorer program satellite and space exploration mission to study matter comprising energetic particles from the solar wind, the interplanetary medium, and other sources. STEREO and Advanced Composition Explorer are missions to the Sun, NASA space probes and spacecraft launched by Delta II rockets.

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Alpha particle

Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus.

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Anaglyph 3D

Anaglyph 3D is the stereoscopic 3D effect achieved by means of encoding each eye's image using filters of different (usually chromatically opposite) colors, typically red and cyan.

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Antoinette Galvin

Antoinette (Toni) Galvin is space physicist at the University of New Hampshire.

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Applied Physics Laboratory

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (or simply Applied Physics Laboratory, or APL) is a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center (UARC) in Howard County, Maryland.

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Apsis

An apsis is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body.

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Astronomical transit

In astronomy, a transit (or astronomical transit) is the passage of a celestial body directly between a larger body and the observer.

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Astronomy (magazine)

Astronomy is a monthly American magazine about astronomy.

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Avionics

Avionics (a blend of aviation and electronics) are the electronic systems used on aircraft.

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Binary star

A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other.

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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.

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Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 17

Space Launch Complex 17 (SLC-17), previously designated Launch Complex 17 (LC-17), was a launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Florida used for Thor and Delta launch vehicles launches between 1958 and 2011.

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Carrington Event

The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking on 1–2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10.

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Coronagraph

A coronagraph is a telescopic attachment designed to block out the direct light from a star or other bright object so that nearby objects – which otherwise would be hidden in the object's bright glare – can be resolved.

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Coronal mass ejection

A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a significant ejection of magnetic field and accompanying plasma mass from the Sun's corona into the heliosphere.

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Data-rate units

In telecommunications, data transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.

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Delta II

Delta II was an expendable launch system, originally designed and built by McDonnell Douglas, and sometimes known as the Thorad Delta 1.

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Ellipse

In mathematics, an ellipse is a plane curve surrounding two focal points, such that for all points on the curve, the sum of the two distances to the focal points is a constant.

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Extreme ultraviolet

Extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV or XUV) or high-energy ultraviolet radiation is electromagnetic radiation in the part of the electromagnetic spectrum spanning wavelengths shorter than the hydrogen Lyman-alpha line from 121 nm down to the X-ray band of 10 nm.

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Field-programmable gate array

A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a type of configurable integrated circuit that can be repeatedly programmed after manufacturing.

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Geocentric orbit

A geocentric orbit, Earth-centered orbit, or Earth orbit involves any object orbiting Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites.

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Gigabyte

The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

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Goddard Space Flight Center

The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States.

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Gravity assist

A gravity assist, gravity assist maneuver, swing-by, or generally a gravitational slingshot in orbital mechanics, is a type of spaceflight flyby which makes use of the relative movement (e.g. orbit around the Sun) and gravity of a planet or other astronomical object to alter the path and speed of a spacecraft, typically to save propellant and reduce expense.

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Heliocentric orbit

A heliocentric orbit (also called circumsolar orbit) is an orbit around the barycenter of the Solar System, which is usually located within or very near the surface of the Sun.

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Heliophysics

Heliophysics (from the prefix "helio", from Attic Greek hḗlios, meaning Sun, and the noun "physics": the science of matter and energy and their interactions) is the physics of the Sun and its connection with the Solar System. STEREO and Heliophysics are space weather.

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Helioseismology

Helioseismology, a term coined by Douglas Gough, is the study of the structure and dynamics of the Sun through its oscillations.

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Heliospheric imager

A heliospheric imager is a wide-field camera that is designed to image the solar wind in interplanetary space, far from the Sun itself. STEREO and heliospheric imager are space weather.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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High-energy nuclear physics

High-energy nuclear physics studies the behavior of nuclear matter in energy regimes typical of high-energy physics.

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Hinode (satellite)

Hinode (ひので,, Sunrise), formerly Solar-B, is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Solar mission with United States and United Kingdom collaboration. STEREO and Hinode (satellite) are missions to the Sun and solar telescopes.

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Honeywell

Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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IBM RAD6000

The RAD6000 radiation-hardened single-board computer, based on the IBM RISC Single Chip CPU, was manufactured by IBM Federal Systems.

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Janet Luhmann

Janet G. Luhmann (born 1946) is an American physicist and senior fellow of the Space Sciences Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, Johns, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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July 2012 solar storm

The solar storm of 2012 was a solar storm involving an unusually large and strong coronal mass ejection that occurred on July 23, 2012.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Lagrange point

In celestial mechanics, the Lagrange points (also Lagrangian points or libration points) are points of equilibrium for small-mass objects under the gravitational influence of two massive orbiting bodies.

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Living With a Star

Living With a Star (LWS) is a NASA scientific program to study those aspects of the connected Sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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Madhulika Guhathakurta

Madhulika (Lika) Guhathakurta is an Indian-American astrophysicist and scientist with NASA's Heliophysics Science Division.

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Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission is a NASA robotic space mission to study the Earth's magnetosphere, using four identical spacecraft flying in a tetrahedral formation. STEREO and Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission are NASA space probes.

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Miniature inertial measurement unit

Miniature inertial measurement unit (MIMU) is an inertial measurement unit (IMU) developed and built by Honeywell International to control and stabilize spacecraft during mission operations.

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Minimal instruction set computer

Minimal instruction set computer (MISC) is a central processing unit (CPU) architecture, usually in the form of a microprocessor, with a very small number of basic operations and corresponding opcodes, together forming an instruction set.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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NASA Deep Space Network

The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) is a worldwide network of spacecraft communication ground segment facilities, located in the United States (California), Spain (Madrid), and Australia (Canberra), that supports NASA's interplanetary spacecraft missions.

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Parker Solar Probe

The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the Sun. STEREO and Parker Solar Probe are missions to the Sun and NASA space probes.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Plasma (physics)

Plasma is one of four fundamental states of matter (the other three being solid, liquid, and gas) characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons.

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POWER1

The POWER1 is a multi-chip CPU developed and fabricated by IBM that implemented the POWER instruction set architecture (ISA).

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Proton

A proton is a stable subatomic particle, symbol, H+, or 1H+ with a positive electric charge of +1 e (elementary charge).

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Quadrature (astronomy)

In spherical astronomy, quadrature is the configuration of a celestial object in which its elongation is perpendicular to the direction of the Sun.

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Radiation hardening

Radiation hardening is the process of making electronic components and circuits resistant to damage or malfunction caused by high levels of ionizing radiation (particle radiation and high-energy electromagnetic radiation), especially for environments in outer space (especially beyond low Earth orbit), around nuclear reactors and particle accelerators, or during nuclear accidents or nuclear warfare.

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Reaction wheel

A reaction wheel (RW) is used primarily by spacecraft for three-axis attitude control, and does not require rockets or external applicators of torque.

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Ring laser gyroscope

A ring laser gyroscope (RLG) consists of a ring laser having two independent counter-propagating resonant modes over the same path; the difference in phase is used to detect rotation.

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Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) is one of the national scientific research laboratories in the UK operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

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Soft microprocessor

A soft microprocessor (also called softcore microprocessor or a soft processor) is a microprocessor core that can be wholly implemented using logic synthesis.

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Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Airbus Defence and Space) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on 2 December 1995, to study the Sun. STEREO and Solar and Heliospheric Observatory are missions to the Sun, NASA space probes, solar space observatories, solar telescopes and space weather.

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Solar Dynamics Observatory

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA mission which has been observing the Sun since 2010. STEREO and Solar Dynamics Observatory are missions to the Sun, NASA space probes, solar space observatories, solar telescopes and space weather.

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Solar energetic particles

Solar energetic particles (SEP), formerly known as solar cosmic rays, are high-energy, charged particles originating in the solar atmosphere and solar wind.

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Solar Orbiter

The Solar Orbiter (SolO) is a Sun-observing probe developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contribution. STEREO and Solar Orbiter are missions to the Sun, NASA space probes, solar space observatories and solar telescopes.

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Solar physics

Solar physics is the branch of astrophysics that specializes in the study of the Sun.

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Solar Terrestrial Probes program

NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP) is a series of missions focused on studying the Sun-Earth system.

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Solar wind

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the corona.

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Solid-state drive

A solid-state drive (SSD) is a solid-state storage device.

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Star tracker

A star tracker is an optical device that measures the positions of stars using photocells or a camera.

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Stellar corona

A corona (coronas or coronae) is the outermost layer of a star's atmosphere.

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Stereoscopy

Stereoscopy (also called stereoscopics, or stereo imaging) is a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by means of stereopsis for binocular vision.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Sunspot

Sunspots are temporary spots on the Sun's surface that are darker than the surrounding area.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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TRACE

Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE, or Explorer 73, SMEX-4) was a NASA heliophysics and solar observatory designed to investigate the connections between fine-scale magnetic fields and the associated plasma structures on the Sun by providing high-resolution images and observation of the solar photosphere, the transition region, and the solar corona. STEREO and TRACE are missions to the Sun, solar space observatories and solar telescopes.

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Triple modular redundancy

In computing, triple modular redundancy, sometimes called triple-mode redundancy, (TMR) is a fault-tolerant form of N-modular redundancy, in which three systems perform a process and that result is processed by a majority-voting system to produce a single output.

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Trojan (celestial body)

In astronomy, a trojan is a small celestial body (mostly asteroids) that shares the orbit of a larger body, remaining in a stable orbit approximately 60° ahead of or behind the main body near one of its Lagrangian points and.

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Ulysses (spacecraft)

Ulysses was a robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes. STEREO and Ulysses (spacecraft) are missions to the Sun, NASA space probes and solar space observatories.

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United Launch Alliance

United Launch Alliance, LLC (ULA) is an American launch service provider formed in December 2006 as a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space and Boeing Defense, Space & Security.

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United States Naval Research Laboratory

The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.

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Variable star

A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) changes with time.

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Vehicle weight

Vehicle weight is a measurement of wheeled motor vehicles; either an actual measured weight of the vehicle under defined conditions or a gross weight rating for its weight carrying capacity.

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Wiggle stereoscopy

Wiggle stereoscopy is an example of stereoscopy in which left and right images of a stereogram are animated.

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Wind (spacecraft)

The Global Geospace Science (GGS) Wind satellite is a NASA science spacecraft designed to study radio waves and plasma that occur in the solar wind and in the Earth's magnetosphere. STEREO and wind (spacecraft) are NASA space probes and spacecraft launched by Delta II rockets.

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X band

The X band is the designation for a band of frequencies in the microwave radio region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEREO

Also known as 2006-047, STEREO A, STEREO B, STEREO probes, STEREO satellite, STEREO-A, STEREO-B, Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory, Stereo (spacecraft), Stereo spacecraft.

, Proton, Quadrature (astronomy), Radiation hardening, Reaction wheel, Ring laser gyroscope, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Soft microprocessor, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Solar energetic particles, Solar Orbiter, Solar physics, Solar Terrestrial Probes program, Solar wind, Solid-state drive, Star tracker, Stellar corona, Stereoscopy, Sun, Sunspot, Time (magazine), TRACE, Triple modular redundancy, Trojan (celestial body), Ulysses (spacecraft), United Launch Alliance, United States Naval Research Laboratory, Variable star, Vehicle weight, Wiggle stereoscopy, Wind (spacecraft), X band.

STEREO, the Glossary

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See also

Discoveries by STEREO

Missions to the Sun

Solar space observatories

Space probes launched in 2006

Space weather

Twin satellites

References