Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
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Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
"Solar Orbiter, a mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with NASA participation, is scheduled to launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Feb. 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida."
https://www.space.com/solar-orbiter-sun ... -2020.html
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Re: Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
"Atlas 5 for Solar Orbiter launch returns to assembly building for inspections"
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/22/a ... cketReport
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Re: Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
smp wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 5:22 pm Here's a bad news update from SpaceFlightNow.com:
"Atlas 5 for Solar Orbiter launch returns to assembly building for inspections"
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/22/a ... cketReport
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That will be a shame if the launch is delayed.
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Re: Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
"Decades in the making, Solar Orbiter finally meets launcher at Cape Canaveral"
"The European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft was installed on top of its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 launcher Friday at Cape Canaveral, ready for final charging and checkouts before liftoff Feb. 9 to finally begin a more than $1.5 billion science mission first approved by the European Space Agency nearly 20 years ago."
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/02/01/d ... canaveral/
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Re: Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
"Europe’s solar orbiter begins its journey to the Sun tonight"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02 ... o-the-sun/
Good luck, and Godspeed, Solar Orbiter!
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"Solar Orbiter probe launching today to unveil secrets of the sun's poles"
https://www.space.com/solar-orbiter-sun ... ained.html
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Re: Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
"Atlas 5 blasts off with Solar Orbiter"
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/02/10/a ... r-orbiter/
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Re: Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
"Atlas launches Solar Orbiter mission"
https://spacenews.com/atlas-launches-so ... r-mission/
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Re: Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
"Solar Orbiter launches on historic mission to study the sun's poles"
https://www.space.com/solar-orbiter-atl ... ccess.html
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