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Solar Orbiter blasts off toward sun from Cape Canaveral
Europe and NASA launched the Solar Orbiter in a $1.5 billion mission to capture the sun's poles, joining Parker Solar Probe in a new round of solar study. The spacecraft will fly past Venus and Earth for gravity assists, with full science operations planned for 2021 and first close solar encounter in 2022.
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Cape Canaveral
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Europe
NASA
Cesar Garcia Marirrodriga
European Space Agency
Parker
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Hasinger
U.S
United Launch Alliance
Daniel Mueller
Holly Gilbert
Solar Orbiter
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Mercury
Parker Solar Probe
Poles
Solar Observatory
Nicola Fox
Heliophysics Division
Mars
Moon
Ian Walters
Airbus Defence and Space
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