Atlas IIAS/Centaur launched ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) toward the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point, where it has continuously studied the Sun's interior, corona, and solar wind for decades.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- L1-point
- Sun-Earth L1
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 1995, 08:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1995-065
- Launches in 1995
- 71st of 80
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