Solar Orbiter antenna deployment
Artist's impression of Solar Orbiter following launch, with solar arrays and antennas deployed.
Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA. 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.
Last Update: 24 January 2020