Robotic missions that study the Sun and the heliosphere from solar orbits, including the NASA Parker Solar Probe, the ESA and NASA Solar Orbiter and the joint ESA and NASA Ulysses probe that left the plane of the planets to view the Sun at all latitudes. A mission belongs here when its cited article describes its principal goal as observing the Sun, the corona or the solar wind. It excludes planetary and comet missions.
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Parker Solar Probe (Wikipedia)
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is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 to make observations of the Sun's outer corona
Solar Orbiter - Wikipedia
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is a Sun-observing probe developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a NASA contribution
Ulysses (spacecraft) - Wikipedia
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was a robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes
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