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Yohkoh
Solar observatory spacecraft / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yohkoh (ようこう, meaning "sunbeam"), is the name of a Japanese artificial satellite which was put into orbit.
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The launch was a project of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of the University of Tokyo.
The satellite was sent into orbit on August 30, 1991.[1] Its mission was to study the sun.
On September 12, 2005 the spacecraft burned up during reentry.