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Sunstorm (spacecraft)

Sunstorm was a heliophysics and space weather monitoring technology demonstration CubeSat satellite by the European Space Agency. During its three-year mission in the low Earth orbit, Sunstorm successfully tested a miniaturised X-Ray Flux Monitor instrument by observing solar flares. It was launched in 2021 on a Vega rocket and reentered the atmosphere in 2024.

See also List of European Space Agency programmes and missions List of heliophysics missions

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  • CubeSats
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  • Solar space observatories
  • Solar telescopes
  • Spacecraft launched in 2021
  • Technology demonstration satellites
  • X-ray astronomy
  • X-ray instrumentation