Updates ESA Solar Orbiter News and Updates

[Notebook]

http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter

Solar Orbiter is targeting 11:03 p.m. EST (0403 GMT Feb. 10).

 

[BrianJ]

Cool!
6 Venus and 2 Earth gravity-assists to crank down the orbit and increase inclination:

Good luck Solar Orbiter and AtlasV teams.

 

[Notebook]

Launch replay.

http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/02/Solar_Orbiter_liftoff

Why do the SRB not jettison as soon as they have finished?

 

[Urwumpe]

Launch replay.

http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/02/Solar_Orbiter_liftoff

Why do the SRB not jettison as soon as they have finished?

Could have aerodynamic reasons, note that the SRB burnout is shortly after Max Q, and the boosters have no separation motors that force the boosters away from the stage. Just look here as well:

 

[tl8]

Launch replay.

http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/02/Solar_Orbiter_liftoff

Why do the SRB not jettison as soon as they have finished?

https://www.reddit.com/r/rocketry/comments/edgqv6/atlas_v_delayed_booster_separation/


"dynamic pressure constraints"

 

[barrygolden]

is there an addon for this

 

[Notebook]

Asteroid experts catch final glimpse of Solar Orbiter

http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/I..._experts_catch_final_glimpse_of_Solar_Orbiter

 

[Notebook]

First measurements by a Solar Orbiter science instrument reached the ground on Thursday 13 February providing a confirmation to the international science teams that the magnetometer on board is in good health following a successful deployment of the spacecraft’s instrument boom.

http://www.esa.int/Science_Explorat...t_Solar_Orbiter_instrument_sends_measurements


http://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Solar_Orbiter_braves_challenging_early_days

 

[Notebook]

Solar Orbiter to pass through the tails of Comet ATLAS

http://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESAC/Solar_Orbiter_to_pass_through_the_tails_of_Comet_ATLAS

 

[Notebook]

Solar Orbiter: Europe's Sun mission makes first close pass
By Jonathan Amos
BBC Science Correspondent

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53045359

 

[Notebook]

ESA’s Solar Orbiter has successfully completed four months of painstaking technical verification, known as commissioning. Despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the spacecraft is now ready to begin performing science as it continues its cruise towards the Sun.

When Solar Obiter blasted into space on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 10 February, the teams behind the €1.5 billion mission did not anticipate that within weeks, the spread of COVID-19 would evict them from their high-tech control rooms, making the challenging process of commissioning the spacecraft’s instruments even harder.

http://www.esa.int/Science_Explorat...r_ready_for_science_despite_COVID-19_setbacks

 

[Urwumpe]

The first images of the ESA Solar Orbiter are being presented right now:

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web_TV

 

[Notebook]

The first images from ESA’s Solar Orbiter, captured around the spacecraft’s first close pass of the Sun, some 77 million kilometres from its surface, are already exceeding expectations revealing interesting new phenomena on our parent star.

This animation shows a series of close-up views captured by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) at wavelengths of 17 nanometers, showing the upper atmosphere of the Sun, or corona, with a temperature of around 1 million degrees.

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/07/Solar_Orbiter_sees_campfires_on_the_Sun

 

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Solar Orbiter releases first data to the public

Solar Orbiter releases first data to the public

ESA has released its first Solar Orbiter data to the scientific community and the wider public. The instruments contributing to this data release come from the suite of in-situ instruments that measure the conditions surrounding the spacecraft.

www.esa.int