| Mission type | Balloon-borne telescope | ||||||||
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| Operator | Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) | ||||||||
| Website | Official Page | ||||||||
| Mission duration | 6 days (2009), 5 days (2013) | ||||||||
| Spacecraft properties | |||||||||
| Manufacturer | Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics High Altitude Observatory Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía Grupo de Astronomía y Ciencias del Espacio | ||||||||
| Launch mass | 2 t (2.0 long tons; 2.2 short tons) | ||||||||
| Power | 1.5 kW | ||||||||
| Start of mission | |||||||||
| Launch date | 8 June 2009 and 12 June 2013 | ||||||||
| Rocket | Balloon | ||||||||
| Launch site | Esrange Space Center Kiruna, Sweden | ||||||||
| End of mission | |||||||||
| Landing date | 14 June 2009 and 17 June 2013[1][2] | ||||||||
| Landing site | Nunavut, Canada | ||||||||
| Main | |||||||||
| Wavelengths | SuFI: 225, 280, 300, 313, 388 nm IMaX: 525.06 nm SUPOS: 854, 853.8 nm | ||||||||
| Resolution | 0.13-0.15 arcsec | ||||||||
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The Sunrise balloon-borne solar observatory consists of a 1m aperture Gregory telescope, a UV filter imager, an imaging vector polarimeter, an image stabilization system and further infrastructure. The first science flight of Sunrise yielded high-quality data that reveal the structure, dynamics and evolution of solar convection, oscillations and magnetic fields at a resolution of around 100 km in the quiet Sun.[3]