Overview
Solar Orbiter is the most complex scientific laboratory ever sent to the Sun, taking images of the Sun from closer than any spacecraft before and being the first to look at its polar regions. With ten instruments, it investigates what drives the Sun's 11-year cycle, what heats the corona to millions of degrees, how solar wind forms and is accelerated, and how solar phenomena affect Earth.
Key facts
- Payload
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- Weight
- 1,720 kg
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- Battery
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- Autonomy
- fully autonomous
- Launch year
- 2020
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- Status
- active
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