Solar Orbiter Processing: Spacecraft Transfer at Astrotech

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is transferred between buildings as it undergoes prelaunch processing at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida. Solar Orbiter aims to study the Sun, its outer atmosphere and solar wind, and will provide the first images of the Sun’s poles. Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA. The spacecraft has been developed by Airbus.