Helios Solar-Probe Program
The jointly managed West German-American programme established in 1969 to design, develop, launch, and operate the Helios A and B probes, combining German spacecraft, experiments, control, and mission operations with NASA launch vehicles, project management, instruments, tracking, and Deep Space Network support to study the inner heliosphere.
Identity
- Aliases
- German-American Helios ProgramProject HeliosHelios A and B
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- Helios Solar-Probe Program
- Status
- completed
Details
- Description
- The jointly managed West German-American programme established in 1969 to design, develop, launch, and operate the Helios A and B probes, combining German spacecraft, experiments, control, and mission operations with NASA launch vehicles, project management, instruments, tracking, and Deep Space Network support to study the inner heliosphere.
- End Date
- 1986
- Start Date
- 1969-06-10
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 29, 2026 at 10:47:30 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 10:47:30 UTC
Other
- Leads
- Official Urls
- Participants
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- Types
- researchdevelopmentoperations