Solar Orbiter separation
Date: 22 January 2020
Satellite: Solar Orbiter
Copyright: ESA/ATG medialab
Artist's impression of Solar Orbiter following separation from the Centaur upper stage of the Atlas V 411 rocket launching the mission into space.
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
