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The active ESA-NASA Solar Orbiter uses 10 science instruments to observe the Sun, solar wind, and the Sun's polar regions.
- Launch vehicle
- Atlas V 411
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral, Space Launch Complex 41
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Heliophysics
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Solar Orbiter: Reconstructed · February 10, 2020 to November 18, 2030
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 6, 2026
- Solar Orbiter - NASA Science — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- Solar Orbiter perihelia and flybys - ESA — ESAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- GCAT: General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (heliocentric catalog), J. McDowell — OTHEROther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Solar Orbiter original spacecraft description — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- Solar Orbiter V112 original as-flown SPICE release — ESAEphemeris · Supports: mission claims
- Atlas V Will Provide Big Boost for Solar Orbiter Mission — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- ESA's Solar Orbiter ducks behind the Sun — ESAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- Our Sun: Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context