Solar Orbiter Launch (edited)
Channel: M2M
Date: 10/02/2020

Terminal 10-second count - 12:57
Lift Off! - 13:05
Max Q - 14:15
SR Booster Burnout - 14:41
SR Booster Sep - 15:25
MECO - 17:09
1st Stage Sep - 17:16
Second Stage Ignition 1 - 17:26
Payload Fairing Jettison - 17:36
Second Engine Cut Off 1 - 21:14
Second Stage Engine Ignition 2 - 24:22
Second Engine Cut Off 2 - 31:12
SOLAR ORBITER SEPARATION - 34:00

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft will get as close as 42 million kilometers to the Sun – about a quarter of the distance between the Sun and Earth – to capture regions that have never been seen before and probe its electromagnetic environment. It was launched today on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 04:03 GMT.

Once in orbit around the Sun — with a maximum heliographic latitude of 24° — the spacecraft will have a close up high-latitude view of the star, including its poles. The hope is that this positioning will improve our understanding of how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the vast bubble of charged particles around the Sun and its planets. New information on the Sun and its atmosphere will also improve predictions of solar storms, which can disrupt satellites and infrastructure on Earth.

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