Artists impression showing the location of the Solar Wind Analyser ensors on the Solar Orbiter Spacecraft
UCL scientists and engineers are to provide instruments for two major space missions which have been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA). The first mission, Solar Orbiter, is the most ambitious ever undertaken to study the Sun and has been scheduled for launch in 2017. Euclid, which will provide Hubble Space Telescope-quality images across the whole sky in the search for dark matter, will launch in 2019. Solar Orbiter. Solar Orbiter will be sent into the inner solar system (as close as the orbit of Mercury) and will carry a set of telescopes to image the Sun and a complementary set of instruments to sample the outflowing solar wind. The mission will reveal how the Sun creates and controls the solar wind and thereby affects the environments of all the planets. This mission scenario will enable the spacecraft to both view the Sun from close in and to view its polar regions.
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