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European Space Agency (ESA)Manufacturer
European Space Agency (ESA)Solar Orbiter Mission
2/10/2020
The dataset is public and was made available to the entire community without being embargoed at the Inouye and Solar Orbiter sites.
The SPICE, STIX, and PHI instruments on Solar Orbiter probed different atmospheric layers and temperature regimes down to the photosphere over a period of about 40 minutes before and during the flare.
Miho Janvier is ESA's Solar Orbiter co-project scientist.
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has a mass of 1,800 kg and was built by Airbus Defence and Space for the European Space Agency.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 411 launched the Solar Orbiter mission from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, Florida on 2020-02-09 at 11:03 p.m. Eastern.
Airbus Defence and Space UK designed and built the Solar Orbiter mission currently operating at the Sun.