Derrol Nail, far left, NASA Communications, moderates a prelaunch news conference for the Solar Orbiter mission at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 7, 2020. From his left are Cesar Garcia, Solar Orbiter Project manager, European Space Agency; Ian Walters, Solar Orbiter project manager, Airbus Defence and Space; Alan Zide, Solar Orbiter Program executive, NASA Headquarters; Tim Dunn, Launch Director, NASA Launch Services Program (LSP); Scott Messer, NASA LSP Program manager, United Launch Alliance; and Jessica Williams, 45th Space Wing Weather officer. Solar Orbiter is an internat
Derrol Nail, far left, NASA Communications, moderates a prelaunch news conference for the Solar Orbiter mission at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 7, 2020. From his left are Cesar Garcia, Solar Orbiter Project manager, European Space Agency; Ian Walters, Solar Orbiter project manager, Airbus Defence and Space; Alan Zide, Solar Orbiter Program executive, NASA Headquarters; Tim Dunn, Launch Director, NASA Launch Services Program (LSP); Scott Messer, NASA LSP Program manager, United Launch Alliance; and Jessica Williams, 45th Space Wing Weather officer. Solar Orbiter is an international cooperative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA. The mission aims to study the Sun, its outer atmosphere and solar wind. The spacecraft will provide the first images of the Sun’s poles. The spacecraft was developed by Airbus Defence and Space. NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy is managing the launch. Solar Orbiter will launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Feb. 9, 2020, from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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