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Europe’s next mission to the Sun

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As the Solar Orbiter spacecraft is scheduled for launch this month, European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA Project Scientists provide an overview of this major ESA–NASA mission to the Sun.

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Fig. 1: Artist’s impression of Solar Orbiter.

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  1. Science Division, Science and Operations Department, Science Directorate, European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

    D. Müller

  2. Science Division, Science and Operations Department, Science Directorate, European Space Agency, ESAC, Madrid, Spain

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  3. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    O. C. St. Cyr, H. R. Gilbert & T. Nieves-Chinchilla

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Müller, D., Zouganelis, I., St. Cyr, O.C. et al. Europe’s next mission to the Sun. Nat Astron 4, 205 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1015-5

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