We were imaging the new ESA Sun explorer Solar Orbiter, with Metis (the Multi-Wavelength Coronagraph) on board, travelling into deep space looking for the Sun to capture the secrets of its full corona. Just one year ago, on 10th February 2020, Solar Orbiter was launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA).…...
Solar Orbiter is on its way and METIS was successfully switched on. Proud moment for OHB Italia
On 28th February at 04.16pm, from Darmstadt in Germany (the ESA Control Center), the multi-wavelength coronagraph METIS developed by OHB Italia was successfully switched on. Everything was fine and the instrument that will observe for the first time in human history the structure and the dynamics of the full corona, took…...
Solar Orbiter was launched with on-board coronagraph METIS realized by OHB Italia
Solar Orbiter, the new ESA Sun Explorer, developed in collaboration with NASA, was launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA) on February 10th at 05.03 CET. Solar Orbiter will be the first mission to operate in extreme environment up to 500C°, providing images of the poles of the Sun at high latitude…...
