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Wind Solar Wind Mission Launch

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1994

Keith Ogilvie1 November 1994

Cape Canaveral · Science / Astronomy

Begins the Wind mission to measure the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic environment upstream of Earth as part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics programme.

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Keith Ogilvie

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