07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
...magnetometer to provide in situ measurements of the heliospheric magnetic field with high precision and a Radio and Plasma Waves experiment to measure magnetic and electric fields at high time resolution, plus many remote-sensing instruments to image...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
...comet’s dust tail if they happen to bump into the spacecraft’s Radio and Plasma Waves experiment; an instrument that was initially intended to determine the characteristics of electromagnetic and electrostatic waves in the solar wind via both in situ...
