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Press releases (SPICE and Solar Orbiter)

Follow SPICE during the cruise phase. 

Goodbye Solar Orbiter! Press releases following Solar Orbiter successful tests and shipping to the USA

• 18 October 2019: Solar Orbiter Satellite Successfully Tested (IABG)
   
• 18 October 2019: Airbus built Solar Orbiter heads for the Sun in Florida (Airbus) 

• 18 October 2019: European SolO probe ready to take on audacious mission (BBC)

• 18 October 2019: Solar Orbiter passes endurance tests (Max Planck Society) 
   
• 18 October 2019: Solar Orbiter leaves Europe for the USA (spaceref)

Solar Orbiter testing is finished! Press releases following the testings throughout the months

• 23 September 2019: Electric and magnetic tests (ESA)

• 2 August 2019: Zero Gravity (ESA)

• 1 April 2019: Vibrations (ESA)

Previous news about SPICE

• End of 2019: Solar Orbiter is undergoing unpacking operations at the Cape Canaveral, for a launch planned in the night of 5-6 February 2020.
   
• 19-20 November 2019: The Consortium met at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (United Kingdom).
   
• 1 November 2019: Solar Orbiter travelled on an Antonov cargo plane and safely arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it is getting ready for launch in February 2020.
   
• 18 October 2019: A media event was organised at IABG near Munich, a last goodbye to the spacecraft before it is being sent to the USA for rocket integration. 
   
• End of summer 2019: All the environmental testings of the spacecraft have been completed (Testing on ESA website)

• 14-15 May 2019: The Consortium met at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen (Germany).
   
• 21-23 January 2019: Members of the SPICE Consortium participated in the SOWG#13 at ESAC to discuss operations to be made during certain observation phases of the Solar Orbiter mission.
   
• 13-14 November 2018: The Consortium team met in Davos at PMOD (Switzerland) for a Consortium meeting.
   
• 19-20 April 2018: The Consortium team met at the Observatoire de Paris (France) for the 1st Operation meeting organised by IAS
   
• 15-16 November 2017: The Consortium team met at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) to discuss the instrument delivery and operations in preparation of the launch of Solar Orbiter
   
• October 2017: SPICE has a logo!
   
• Summer 2017: SPICE has been delivered to Airbus and integrated on the spacecraft platform.