This image shows an artist's rendition of the HESSI spacecraft with the Earth in the background. The lower left image shows a picture of the Sun taken by the Yohkoh satellite. The lower right image or inset shows an enlargement of a solar flare taken in the x-ray segment of light.
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HESSI is Go for Launch!
News story originally written on January 9, 2002
The HESSI spacecraft was supposed to be launched a long time ago. But, HESSI has had a hard time getting off the ground because of
several problems. HESSI will hopefully be launched on January 24, 2002.
HESSI is the name of NASA's newest satellite built to study the Sun. HESSI stands for High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager. Those big words mean that HESSI will study solar flares. Solar flares are high energy and they can have big effects on the Earth!
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