Science and Technology Facilities Council | STFC Virtual Talk | Solar Orbiter the journey so far. @SciTechUK | Uploaded September 2020 | Updated October 2024, 18 minutes ago.
This live talk was held on Aug 5. To sign up to future talks and join the Q&A please visit the STFC Eventbrite page.
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RAL Space's Martin Caldwell to discover more about the exciting Solar Orbiter space mission to study our Sun, and its first data.
Solar Orbiter launched in February 2020, an exciting ESA mission to learn more about our Sun, and its relationship with our own planet Earth: it will get closer to the Sun than any previous mission, trying to unlock some of its secrets. RAL Space, at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, led an international group of scientists and engineers to build and develop SPICE, one of its instruments, and everyone was very excited in July when we received the first data and pictures from the spacecraft.
Martin talks about the story of the development of the UV optical instrument at RAL for the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter, some history of discoveries about the Sun, and what new aspects Solar Orbiter aims to explore.
To find out more about Solar Orbiter, you can also read about it on our website.
ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/First-images-from-Solar-Orbiter%E2%80%99s-SPICE-instrument-revealed.aspx
This live talk was held on Aug 5. To sign up to future talks and join the Q&A please visit the STFC Eventbrite page.
eventbrite.co.uk/o/stfc-rutherford-appleton-laboratory-ral-8356531094
RAL Space's Martin Caldwell to discover more about the exciting Solar Orbiter space mission to study our Sun, and its first data.
Solar Orbiter launched in February 2020, an exciting ESA mission to learn more about our Sun, and its relationship with our own planet Earth: it will get closer to the Sun than any previous mission, trying to unlock some of its secrets. RAL Space, at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, led an international group of scientists and engineers to build and develop SPICE, one of its instruments, and everyone was very excited in July when we received the first data and pictures from the spacecraft.
Martin talks about the story of the development of the UV optical instrument at RAL for the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter, some history of discoveries about the Sun, and what new aspects Solar Orbiter aims to explore.
To find out more about Solar Orbiter, you can also read about it on our website.
ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/First-images-from-Solar-Orbiter%E2%80%99s-SPICE-instrument-revealed.aspx
