10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... the dots between what we see at the Sun and what we experience while soaking up the solar wind,” says Daniel Müller, ESA’s Solar Orbiter project scientist. “This will provide unprecedented insight into how our parent star works...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
...Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Solar Orbiter will fly closer to the Sun than any European spacecraft in ...did so. Now though, all eyes will be on ESA’s solar mission after Accomazzo took to Twitter following the pre-...
30 October 2019
Solar Orbiter ready for launch transfer
ESA's Solar Orbiter pictured at IABG in Ottobrunn, Germany, this week before starting its journey to Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, in preparations for launch. Solar Orbiter will perform a close-up study of our Sun and the Sun-Earth connection to ...
June 2015
Ultimate sunbather: NASA and ESA collaborate on Solar Orbiter
... on the Sun drives heliospheric variability. The essential sunshield is placed in ESA’s Large Space Simulator for testing. To achieve this list of goals Solar Orbiter is completely packed with scientific instruments. The instrument suites themselves...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
... of a small house. But in a new twist of events, it turns out it might not all be bad news, as ESA’s sun-observing satellite Solar Orbiter, could be in the right place at the right time to encounter the comet's ion and dust tail...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
... for polymers are already present on the ISS and a metallic printer is set to join them. Artist impression of ESA’s Solar Orbiter in front of the Sun (not to scale). It will perform in-situ and direct remote sensing measurements of the Sun...
