Solar Orbiter packed for launch
![](https://cdn.sci.esa.int/documents/34903/35595/Solar_Orbiter_packed_for_launch_625.jpg)
Date: 21 January 2020
Satellite: Solar Orbiter
Location: Astrotech payload processing facility, Florida, USA
Copyright: ESA–S. Corvaja
ESA's new Sun-observing spacecraft Solar Orbiter inside the fairing of the US Atlas V 411 rocket at the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida during launch preparations on 21 January 2020.
Last Update: 7 February 2020