Solar Orbiter liftoff
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Date: 10 February 2020
Satellite: Solar Orbiter
Location: Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
Copyright: ESA–S. Corvaja
ESA's new Sun exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter launched atop the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 04:03 UTC (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020.
Last Update: 10 February 2020