Should the mission be extended (and with the spacecraft continuing to perform like a champ, there is no reason to think it shouldn't unless the science return stops justifying the cost) additional Venus encounters will occur in 2028, 2029, and 2030. CNN The Solar Orbiter mission will make its closest flyby of the sun Saturday since launching in February 2020. The probe's future encounters (other than when it gets up close and personal with the Sun) will be with Venus, next in 2022 and again in 20.
Sadly, if you didn't manage to get a glimpse of the spacecraft, you've likely missed your chance. Solar Orbiter magnetometer November 28, 2021 Thanks to everyone on the team for a great flyby. Looking forward to joint science with other missions. We're still processing the high-res data but so far everything looks great. Success! Excellent data from yesterday's encounter. Normally it "sees" the Sun all the time, being a solar observatory and all, but during this time the batteries kept things ticking over and useful science was collected. Solar Orbiter makes regular close passes of the sun at about one-third of the sun-Earth distance, within the orbit of the planet Mercury.On this flyby, the spacecraft's fifth, it reached the. SolO launched on the 10th February 2020 and began its mission in. It was also the first and only time the observatory experienced a solar eclipse, spending around 30 minutes in the Earth's shadow. Illustration of the Solar Orbiter (SolO) spacecraft making a gravity assist flyby of Earth. NASA boffins seem to think we're worth saving from fiery asteroid death so they're shooting a spaceship at one.ESA's Solar Orbiter will swing past Earth this week – sure hope nobody created a big cloud of space junk up there.James Webb Space Telescope may actually truly launch this century, says NASA.You, me and debris: NASA cans ISS spacewalk because it's getting too risky outside.All ran from the onboard timeline, but it was still a relief to engineers when the signal returned, indicating the spacecraft was back in its normal configuration. Watch house-size asteroid 2023 MU2 fly by Earth at over 2,000 mph (video) The near-Earth object 2023 MU2 was seen by the Virtual Project as it made a close approach to our planet on the evening of. The spacecraft remained busy with transmitter management (the High Gain Antenna is too powerful to be used so close to Earth, so a switch to the Low Gain Antenna and a dialling down of power was required). Although Io always points the same side toward Jupiter in its orbit around the giant planet, the large moons Europa and Ganymede perturb Ios orbit into an irregularly elliptical one. The trajectory was within the expected bounds and ESA's Space Debris Office calculated the risk of collisions on that trajectory was below the threshold at which a switch to an alternative would have been required. A bit larger than Earths Moon, Io is the third largest of Jupiters moons, and the fifth one in distance from the planet. Solar Orbiter momentum plot in 10,000ths of a radian per second during Earth flybyĮngineers had worried that additional corrections might have been needed to dodge debris but the flyby passed without incident.
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