articleAstronomy and AstrophysicsAug 4, 2020BRONZE OA

The Solar Orbiter mission

DMD. MüllerOCO. C. St. CyrIZI. ZouganelisHRH. R. GilbertRGR. G. Marsden

European Space Research and Technology Centre · Goddard Space Flight Center · +34 more institutions

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Abstract

Aims. Solar Orbiter, the first mission of ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 programme and a mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA, will explore the Sun and heliosphere from close up and out of the ecliptic plane. It was launched on 10 February 2020 04:03 UTC from Cape Canaveral and aims to address key questions of solar and heliospheric physics pertaining to how the Sun creates and controls the Heliosphere, and why solar activity changes with time. To answer these, the mission carries six remote-sensing instruments to observe the Sun and the solar corona, and four in-situ instruments to measure the solar wind, energetic particles, and electromagnetic fields. In this paper, we describe the…

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