The Solar Orbiter mission -- Science overview

摘要: Solar Orbiter, the first mission of ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme and a international collaboration between ESA NASA, will explore Sun heliosphere from close up out ecliptic plane. It was launched on 10 February 2020 04:03 UTC Cape Canaveral aims to address key questions solar heliospheric physics pertaining how creates controls Heliosphere, why activity changes with time. To answer these, carries six remote-sensing instruments observe corona, four in-situ measure wind, energetic particles, electromagnetic fields. In this paper, we describe science objectives mission, these be addressed by joint observations onboard. The paper summarises mission-level objectives, followed an overview spacecraft payload. We report observables performance figures each instrument, as well trajectory design. This is summary operations concept. concludes more detailed description objectives. Orbiter combine measurements in high-resolution fundamental physics. payload meets requirements derived mission's Its return augmented further coordinated other space missions ground-based observatories.