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Solar Orbiter

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Also known as SolO, SolarOrbiter

ESA solar probe

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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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Solar Orbiter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.