NASA, ESA Solar Orbiter Scheduled For Sunday Night Launch Written 5 February 2020

Florida Today reports that the NASA-ESA Solar Orbiter is scheduled to launch “atop United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket no earlier than 11:03 p.m. Sunday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 41.” If successful, the Solar Orbiter “will provide a never-before-seen global view of our sun” and “is the latest effort in what helophysicists are calling a golden age of solar physics.” Yannis Zouganelis, ESA deputy project scientist for Solar Orbiter at the European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid, said, “What we want to do with Solar Orbiter is to understand how our star creates and controls the constantly changing space environment throughout the solar system.” Scientists also hope to address questions in the areas of solar wind, “coronal mass ejection,” “solar reactions that produce energetic particles,” and “solar activity.”
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