Airbus: Solar Orbiter ready for launch
(CercleFinance.com) - The Solar Orbiter probe produced by Airbus has been fitted inside the protective fairing and mounted on top of its launcher.
It is now ready for launch from Cape Canaveral, which is scheduled for the evening of 9 February.
"The European Space Agency (ESA) mission will revolutionise understanding of how the Sun creates and controls the giant bubble of plasma surrounding the Solar System and influences the planets within it," the group said.
"This will enable unprecedented observations of magnetic activity building up in the atmosphere that can lead to powerful flares and eruptions," the group added.
Solar Orbiter has ten in-situ and remote sensing instruments to take photographs, spectra, measure solar wind plasma, fields, waves and energetic particles very close to the Sun.
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It is now ready for launch from Cape Canaveral, which is scheduled for the evening of 9 February.
"The European Space Agency (ESA) mission will revolutionise understanding of how the Sun creates and controls the giant bubble of plasma surrounding the Solar System and influences the planets within it," the group said.
"This will enable unprecedented observations of magnetic activity building up in the atmosphere that can lead to powerful flares and eruptions," the group added.
Solar Orbiter has ten in-situ and remote sensing instruments to take photographs, spectra, measure solar wind plasma, fields, waves and energetic particles very close to the Sun.
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