ESA Science & Technology - Solar Orbiter definition study report (Red Book)

Publication date: 26 July 2011

Issue: 1.0
Year: 2011

Copyright: ESA

Reference: ESA/SRE(2011)14

This report, the so-called Red Book, presents an overview of the Solar Orbiter mission in its present state of advanced definition. Solar Orbiter is a medium-size (M-class) mission of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme, and competes for one of the two launch slots foreseen in 2017 and 2018.