Solar Orbiter - NASA Science
Feb 9, 2020 · An international cooperative mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, Solar Orbiter is a Sun-observing satellite with 10 science instruments, all designed to provide unprecedented insight into how our local star 'works.'
Solar Orbiter - Wikipedia
The Solar Orbiter (SolO) [7] is a Sun-observing probe developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contribution. Solar Orbiter, designed to obtain detailed measurements of the inner heliosphere and the nascent solar wind, will also perform close observations of the polar regions of the ...
ESA - Solar Orbiter - European Space Agency
Solar Orbiter is the most complex scientific laboratory ever to have been sent to our life-giving star, taking images of the Sun from closer than any spacecraft before and being the first to look at its polar regions.
ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter Returns First Data, Snaps Closest …
Jul 16, 2020 · Solar Orbiter is an international collaboration between the European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA, to study our closest star, the Sun. Launched on Feb. 9, 2020 (EST), the spacecraft completed its first close pass of the Sun in mid-June.
Solar Orbiter - NASA
The Solar Orbiter is part of the joint ESA-NASA science program Heliophysical Explorers (HELEX). The Solar Orbiter consists of a three-axis stabilized spacecraft equipped with instruments for both in-situ measurements and remote-sensing observations.
Solar Orbiter Launch Takes Solar Science to New Heights - NASA
Feb 10, 2020 · Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA to study the Sun, launched at 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
NASA SVS | Solar Orbiter
Dec 16, 2019 · Solar Orbiter is an European Space Agency (ESA) mission with strong NASA participation. Its mission is to perform unprecedented close-up observations of the Sun and from high-latitudes, providing the first images of the uncharted polar regions of the Sun, and investigating the Sun-Earth connection. ||. Go to this page. ID: 20306 Animation.
ESA - Solar Orbiter overview - European Space Agency
ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission is conceived to perform a close-up study of our Sun and inner heliosphere - the uncharted innermost regions of our Solar System - to better understand, and even predict, the unruly behaviour of the star on which our lives depend.
How ESA-NASA’s Solar Orbiter Beats the Heat - NASA
Feb 4, 2020 · When Solar Orbiter launches on its journey to the Sun, there’s one key piece of engineering making this ESA-NASA mission possible: the heat shield. Seeking a view of the Sun’s north and south poles, Solar Orbiter will journey out of the ecliptic plane — the belt of space, roughly in line with the Sun’s equator, through which the planets ...
NASA, ESA to Release First Images from Solar Orbiter Mission
Jul 13, 2020 · Scientists from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) will release the first data captured by Solar Orbiter, the joint ESA/NASA mission to study the Sun, during an online news briefing at 8 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 16. The briefing will stream live on NASA’s website.