USER MANUAL Solar Orbiter

In February 2020, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) highly anticipated Solar Orbiter will launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida on top of an Atlas V rocket. Although this mission is led by the ESA, it has had strong contributions from NASA, including the launch site and rocket. This is one of the missions that constitutes the ESA’s Cosmic Vision programme, and will investigate the only star in our Solar System, the Sun. Not only is it equipped with ten state-of-the-art instruments – designed to investigate everything from coronal mass ejections (CMEs) to the solar wind – it will also conduct