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@ESASolarOrbiter
Oct 31, 2019 • 7 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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Good morning! ☀️ Our #SolarOrbiter spacecraft is getting ready to leave #Europe on an Antonov cargo plane for its next stage of launch preparations at Cape Canaveral 👋 Here’s one of the last views before packing, taken earlier this month 👇 
More info👉esa.int/Science_Explor… Image
In the meantime, here’s a recap of the latest status and what’s in store for #SolarOrbiter’s mission to the #Sun
📽Watch:
#SolarOrbiter is scheduled for launch Feb 2020 and will use gravity assists at Earth & Venus to get progressively closer & different views of the #Sun 📽 #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters
Why study the #Sun? Remember the #Halloween solar storms of 2003? This is just one important reason - we need to understand better how our Sun and #SpaceWeather works
📷 More Halloween storm photos & video from SOHO 👉soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_… #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters #SolarOrbiter Image
#SolarOrbiter will provide the first views of the #Sun's poles and collect in situ and remote sensing data to study our star and the Sun-Earth connection. All about our mission👉 esa.int/Science_Explor… Image
More facts about #SolarOrbiter and its mission to the #Sun ☀️🛰 esa.int/Science_Explor… #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters Image
#StayTuned for news of #SolarOrbiter's journey to Florida! 😎 #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters

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Sep 30, 2020
We are excited to announce our first data release! The first data are from in-situ instruments that measure #space conditions around the spacecraft

Read more👉esa.int/Science_Explor…
Dive into the archive👉soar.esac.esa.int/soar/
#OpenESA #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters #SolarOrbiter
For many space missions first data usually comes after 6 months-1 year, but #SolarOrbiter is different: the time between data being received on Earth & it being released is at most 90 days!
#OpenESA #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters
#SolarOrbiter remote sensing instruments will only start nominal operations in Nov ’21, so their data will come later. But we already enjoyed a sneak peek earlier this year:
esa.int/Science_Explor…
#OpenESA #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters
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Jul 16, 2020
👋Welcome to the live press briefing with #SolarOrbiter experts presenting the exciting images from the mission captured around its 1st close pass of the #Sun

📨For journalists who have any questions, please send them to media@esa.int

😎Join the conversation via #TheSunUpClose
📷The brand new #SolarOrbiter images that we are going to see today are already the closest ever images of the Sun, captured only 77 million km from our star's surface 👍

#TheSunUpClose

📽️Perihelion animation: esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…
While #SolarOrbiter is taking the closest images of the #Sun, @NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is actually flying much closer. The two missions will work together, collecting complementary data to investigate our nearest star
🛰️🌞🛰️

#TheSunUpClose

Details: esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…
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Jul 15, 2020
Launched in February, #SolarOrbiter performed its first close approach to the #Sun in mid June, getting just 77 million km from its surface and capturing the closest ever images of our parent star 🌞🛰️📷

These brand new views will be released tomorrow. Stay tuned #TheSunUpClose Image
An international collaboration between ESA and NASA, #SolarOrbiter lofted to space aboard the US Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 05:03 CET on 10 February (23:03 EST on 9 February).

Relive the excitement of the launch:
The mission of #SolarOrbiter: to perform unprecedented close-up observations of the #Sun – including from high latitudes, obtaining views of the Sun's poles – and investigate the Sun-Earth connection.

Find out more about the mysteries it is out to solve: esa.int/Science_Explor… Image
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May 29, 2020
Bonus #science opportunity for #SolarOrbiter, which will cross through the tails of #Comet ATLAS in the next few days. The mission's 4 in-situ instruments will be switched on and collecting data during the encounter 👍 #weareallsolarorbiters

More details: esa.int/Science_Explor…
The commissioning of #SolarOrbiter has been proceeding over the past three months to ensure the spacecraft and instruments will be fully functional for the 1st close pass of the #Sun, to take place on 15 June, around 77 million km from our parent star.
Meanwhile, @einionyn noticed that #SolarOrbiter would pass through the ion tail of Comet ATLAS on 31 May-1 June + through the dust tail on 6 June. Fortuitously, the 4 in-situ instruments that measure the conditions around the spacecraft are also great for studying #comet tails! Image
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Feb 10, 2020
👋Greetings from ESA's Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany! We're getting ready for #SolarOrbiter launch: liftoff is scheduled in less than 30min from @NASAKennedy

Follow live coverage from ESOC & Cape Canaveral via #ESAWebTV
🎥esawebtv.esa.int

#WeAreAllSolarOrbiters
@NASAKennedy The press centre here in Darmstadt is vibrant with #media!

Follow @ESASolarOrbiter & @esaoperations for a detailed countdown to liftoff of #SolarOrbiter and @esascience for exclusive content about the mission science #science from our experts

#WeAreAllSolarOrbiters
@NASAKennedy @esaoperations @esascience Why #SolarOrbiter?
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