The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft in launch
configuration prior to acoustic tests in Toulouse, France in early
1995.  The Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) instrument
is the large gold cylinder in the front.  SOHO was launched on
December 2, 1995 and has observed the Sun nearly continuously
since that time.

(see, e.g., Kohl et al. 1995, Solar Physics, 162, 313;
Kohl et al. 1997, Solar Physics, 175, 613)