Key facts
- Mission type
- Heliophysics
- Operator
- ESA / NASA
- Cospar id
- 2020-010A
- Website
- Official website
- Mission duration
- 7 years (nominal), + 3 years (extended) , Elapsed: 6 years and 4 months
- Manufacturer
- Airbus Defence and Space
- Launch mass
- 1,800 kg (4,000 lb)
- Payload mass
- 209 kg (461 lb)
- Dimensions
- 2.5 × 3.1 × 2.7 m (8 × 10 × 9 ft)
- Power
- 180 watts
- Launch date
- 10 February 2020, 04:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 411 (AV-087)
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral , SLC ‑ 41
- Contractor
- United Launch Alliance
- Entered service
- November 2021, (start of main mission)
- Reference system
- Heliocentric
- Regime
- Elliptic orbit
- Perihelion altitude
- 0.28 AU (42 million km; 26 million mi)
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Wikidata facts
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- Euclid
- Parent body
- Sun
- Mass
- 209
- Orbital period
- 168
- Manufacturer
- Airbus Defence and Space
- Official website
- www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter
- Image
- Solar Orbiter ESA20813950.jpg
- Height
- 2.7
- Width
- 3.1
- Length
- 2.5
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- short name
- SolO
- Commons category
- Solar Orbiter
- launch contractor
- United Launch Alliance
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2020-02-10
- nominal power output
- 180
- service entry
- 2021-11-01
- periapsis
- 0.29
- apoapsis
- 0.91
- power consumed
- 1100
- type of orbit
- heliocentric orbit
- orbital inclination
- 33
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Solar Orbiter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.