United Launch Alliance sent ESA and NASA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft toward the Sun aboard an Atlas V 411. Solar Orbiter is designed to capture the first direct images of the Sun's polar regions using repeated gravity-assist flybys of Venus and Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 6 Atlas V 411 flights
- Date and time
- 10 February 2020, 04:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 411
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 2020-010
- Launches in 2020
- 11th of 114
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