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Solar Orbiter liftoff


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
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