Our new Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter lofted to space aboard the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020. Solar Orbiter, an ESA-led mission with strong NASA participation, carries a set of ten instruments for imaging the surface of the Sun and studying the environment in its vicinity. The spacecraft will travel around the Sun on an elliptical orbit that will take it as

Our instrument aboard the ESA - European Space Agency & NASA Solar Orbiter mission has just captured its first solar eruption! ☀️ Learn more about the sun-watching spacecraft and its observations: https://go.nasa.gov/3tReJ29 | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration