Solar Orbiter — archive:solar-orbiter
launch attemptArchive-qualified launchcompleted
Solar Orbiter — archive:solar-orbiter was an archive-qualified launch conducted on February 9, 2020 from an unresolved launch site using Solar Orbiter spacecraft, carrying 4 recorded payload entries. The recorded outcome was success or operational; the census identity distinguishes this attempt from flights that may share a mission name or launch date.
- Launch class
- Archive-qualified launch
- Launch date
- February 9, 2020
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The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is placed on a truck for transportation from the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the Astrotech Space Operations facility in nearby Titusville on Nov. 1, 2019. The spacecraft was delivered to the Florida spaceport aboard an Antonov An-124 cargo plane from Munich, Germany. Solar Orbiter is a European Space Agency mission with strong NASA participation. The mission aims to study the Sun, its outer atmosphere and solar winds. The spacecraft will provide the first images of the Sun’s poles. NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy is managing the launch. Liftoff is scheduled for Feb. 5, 2020, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
About this launch
Existing mission record has a dated physical launch and qualified sources but did not meet the deterministic GCAT identity match threshold. This launch is retained as its own historical attempt so its date, vehicle, origin, operator, trajectory, payload, and outcome can be followed without collapsing it into a program total.
Solar Orbiter — archive:solar-orbiter used Solar Orbiter spacecraft from an unresolved launch site. The technical record includes the Elliptical heliocentric orbit approaching within 26 million miles (42 million kilometers) of the Sun profile. 4 payload entries are connected to the launch manifest.
Launch facts
- Launch date
- February 9, 2020
- Vehicle
- Solar Orbiter spacecraft
- Outcome
- success or operational
- Launch site
- an unresolved launch site
Technical details and catalog designation
Trajectory measurements and catalog terminology are retained here when available. Codes follow the original records.
- Launch class
- Archive-qualified launch
- Destination / profile
- Elliptical heliocentric orbit approaching within 26 million miles (42 million kilometers) of the Sun
- Payload entries
- 4
- Catalog designation
- archive:solar-orbiter
Payload manifest
Solar Orbiter spacecraft
Catalog identifiers held
Atlas V 411
Catalog identifiers held
Ten instruments: six remote-sensing imagers and spectrographs plus four in-situ suites for magnetic fields, plasma, energetic particles, and radio waves
Catalog identifiers held
Elliptical heliocentric orbit approaching within 26 million miles (42 million kilometers) of the Sun
Catalog identifiers held
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- Solar Orbiter spacecraftPayload manifest entry
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- Atlas V 411Payload manifest entry
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- Ten instruments: six remote-sensing imagers and spectrographs plus four in-situ suites for magnetic fields, plasma, energetic particles, and radio wavesPayload manifest entry
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- Elliptical heliocentric orbit approaching within 26 million miles (42 million kilometers) of the SunPayload manifest entry
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