Europejska sonda zbada Słońce 10.02. o 04:03:00,155 z Cape Canaveral wystrzelona została RN Atlas-5/411, która wyniosła w T+49' 50,8" na orbitę heliocentryczną
sondę kosmiczną ESA
SolO (Solar Orbiter).
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n200201.htm#05Rakietowa niedziela i poniedziałek (09-10.02.2020) BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 10 LUTEGO 2020
Atlas V wynosi Solar OrbiterDziesiątego lutego o godzinie 05:03 CET nastąpił start europejsko-amerykańskiej misji Solar Orbiter. Start nastąpił za pomocą rakiety Altas V z wyrzutni LC-41 na Florydzie. Lot przebiegł prawidłowo i sonda została skierowana na odpowiednią orbitę heliocentryczną. Zgodnie z harmonogramem lotu nastąpiło także rozłożenie paneli słonecznych oraz przesłanie potwierdzenia statusu sondy do centrum kontroli misji.
Start misji Solar Orbiter / Credits – European Space Agency, ESA
Misja Solar Orbiter odbywa się z polskim udziałem. Centrum Badań Kosmicznych PAN odpowiadało za budowę jednostki przetwarzania (instrument digital processing unit) i oprogramowanie niskiego poziomu instrumentu STIX, oraz za jego testy termiczne i naziemne oprzyrządowanie elektryczne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF7_BM3as4s&feature=emb_title
Film niedostępny
Orbita misji Solar Orbiter / Credits – ESA
Polecamy
artykuł na temat misji Solar Orbiter.
https://kosmonauta.net/2020/02/rakietowa-niedziela-i-poniedzialek-09-10-02-2020/#prettyPhotohttps://www.urania.edu.pl/wiadomosci/rakieta-atlas-v-wyniosla-europejska-sonde-badan-slonca-solar-orbiterhttp://www.kosmonautyka.pl/solar-orbiterAtlas 5 for Solar Orbiter launch returns to assembly building for inspectionsJanuary 22, 2020 Stephen Clark
The United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket for the Solar Orbiter mission rolled out to Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Tuesday, Jan. 21, for a planned wet dress rehearsal Wednesday. Credit: United Launch Alliancehttps://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/22/atlas-5-rocket-for-solar-orbiter-mission-returns-to-assembly-building-for-inspections/Photos: Solar Orbiter encapsulated inside launch shroudJanuary 24, 2020 Stephen Clark
Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelskyhttps://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/24/photos-solar-orbiter-encapsulated-inside-launch-shroud/ULA team completes countdown practice run before Solar Orbiter launchJanuary 24, 2020 Stephen Clark
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is pictured during a countdown dress rehearsal Friday at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad. Credit: United Launch AllianceUnited Launch Alliance teams loaded super-cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen into an Atlas 5 rocket Friday at Cape Canaveral during a countdown dress rehearsal for a planned launch next month with the Solar Orbiter mission, a robotic spacecraft to study the origins of the solar wind and image the sun’s poles for the first time.
The Atlas 5’s wet dress rehearsal Friday at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad served as a practice run of the launch day procedures ULA crews will perform during the real countdown.
The wet dress rehearsal is not part of standard Atlas 5 launch campaigns, but NASA requires the extra test for missions that have limited planetary launch windows. Solar Orbiter is such a mission, and has 19 daily launch opportunities next month beginning Feb. 5 to reach a flyby with Venus in December to use the planet’s gravity to slingshot closer to the sun. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/24/ula-team-completes-countdown-practice-run-before-solar-orbiter-launch/Solar Orbiter launch delayed to Feb. 7January 26, 2020 Stephen Clark
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket — seen without the Solar Orbiter spacecraft on top — completed a practice countdown at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 41 launch pad Friday, Jan. 24. Credit: United Launch AllianceOfficials have delayed the launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket with the European-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft from Cape Canaveral by two days to Feb. 7, a ripple effect from time spent fixing a minor issue last week during a launch vehicle countdown dress rehearsal.
The European Space Agency, which leads the Solar Orbiter mission in partnership with NASA, announced the two-day delay to Feb. 7 on Sunday. The new Solar Orbiter launch window opens at 11:15 p.m. EST on Feb. 7 and extends to 1:15 a.m. on Feb. 8 (0415-0615 GMT on Feb. 8 ). (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/26/solar-orbiter-launch-delayed-to-feb-7/NASA, Europe space agency launch Solar Orbiter missionby Paul Brinkmann Washington DC (UPI) Feb 09, 2020
(...) "It's called a hyperbolic escape trajectory," said Scott Messer, program manager for NASA programs at United Launch Alliance. "It actually leaves the gravitational field of the Earth and heads out. It has a couple of gravity assists, a slingshot around Venus, and then it comes back around Earth, and back to Venus."
The reason for the multiple gravity slingshots is that the Solar Orbiter ultimately has to escape the orbital plane of the planets, which circle the sun's equator.
"It's a highly optimized effort that goes on between the spacecraft team and the rocket team. It's a fairly big optimization problem," Messer said. (...)
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Europe_space_agency_launch_Solar_Orbiter_mission_999.htmlWeather 90% GO for Solar Orbiter Launch to the Sun Tonight from Florida, Watch LiveBy Ben Evans, on February 8th, 2020
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands poised to launch the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter from Cape Canaveral, on a mission in collaboration with NASA to explore the sun and its poles up-close. Photo: ULAWatch as ULA rolls out their Atlas V rocket with ESA’s Solar Orbiter for launch on Feb 9
Credit: ULA
credit: ESAhttps://www.americaspace.com/2020/02/08/solar-orbiter-to-launch-on-exciting-new-mission-to-the-sun-sunday-night/Solar Orbiter Launches to the Sun, Kicking Off Ambitious 2020 Manifest for ULABy Ben Evans, on February 10th, 2020
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying Solar Orbiter lifts off from Space Launch Complex-41 at 11:03 p.m. EST on Feb. 9, 2020. Solar Orbiter is an international cooperative mission between ESA and NASA. Photo: ULA
Solar Orbiter in final flight processing in Florida. Photo: Mike Killian / AmericaSpace.comhttps://www.americaspace.com/2020/02/10/solar-orbiter-launches-to-the-sun-kicking-off-ambitious-2020-manifest-for-ula/LIFTOFF FOR SOLAR ORBITER, ESA'S MISSION TO FACE THE SUN UP CLOSE10 February 2020
Solar Orbiter liftoff. Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja(...)
"As humans, we have always been familiar with the importance of the Sun to life on Earth, observing it and investigating how it works in detail, but we have also long known it has the potential to disrupt everyday life should we be in the firing line of a powerful solar storm,
"By the end of our Solar Orbiter mission, we will know more about the hidden force responsible for the Sun's changing behaviour and its influence on our home planet than ever before."
"Solar Orbiter is going to do amazing things. Combined with the other recently launched NASA missions to study the Sun, we are gaining unprecedented new knowledge about our star," said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for Science at the agency’s headquarters in Washington.
"Together with our European partners, we’re entering a new era of heliophysics that will transform the study of the Sun and help make astronauts safer as they travel on Artemis program missions to the Moon."At its closest, Solar Orbiter will face the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury, approximately 42 million kilometres from the solar surface. Cutting-edge heatshield technology will ensure the spacecraft's scientific instruments are protected as the heatshield will endure temperatures of up to 500°C – up to 13 times the heat experienced by satellites in Earth orbit.
"After some twenty years since inception, six years of construction, and more than a year of testing, together with our industrial partners we have established new high-temperature technologies and completed the challenge of building a spacecraft that is ready to face the Sun and study it up close," adds César García Marirrodriga, ESA's Solar Orbiter project manager. (...)
https://sci.esa.int/web/solar-orbiter/-/liftoff-for-solar-orbiter-esa-s-mission-to-face-the-sun-up-closehttps://spaceflightnow.com/2020/02/09/atlas-5-solar-orbiter-launch-timeline/https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2020/02/esa-solar-orbiter-atlas-v-study-sun/Artykuły astronautycznehttps://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/solar-orbiter.htmEDIT 10.02.23
https://twitter.com/ESA_History/status/1623988977064714240https://twitter.com/ulalaunch/status/1623702717955821575