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Solar Orbiter Liftoff
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The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, carrying the Solar Orbiter, lifts off Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 11:03 p.m. EST, on Feb. 9, 2020. Solar Orbiter is an international cooperative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA. The mission aims to study the Sun, its outer atmosphere and solar wind. The spacecraft will provide the first images of the Sun’s poles. The spacecraft was developed by Airbus Defence and Space.
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Credit lineSolar Orbiter Liftoff. NASA/KSC, 2020-02-09. Public domain. ID: KSC-20200209-PH-KLS01_0154.
