Social media
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Press releases (SPICE and Solar Orbiter)
SPICE and Solar Orbiter first light images released, 16th July 2020
- The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Press Release
- The New York Times article
- Nature press release
- BBC article
Follow SPICE during the cruise phase.
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23 April 2020: SPICE receives "First Light"
- 25 February 2020: SPICE successfully switched on
Goodbye Solar Orbiter! Press releases following Solar Orbiter successful tests and shipping to the USA
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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)
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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
- February 2020: Small SPICE consortium meeting planned on Thursday 6 2020 in the afternoon, ahead of the launch.
- January 2020: SPICE is now on social media! Twitter: @spice_on_SolO and Instagram: @solarorbiter_spice. Follow us!
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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.
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19-20 November 2019: The Consortium met at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (United Kingdom).
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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.
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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)
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14-15 May 2019: The Consortium met at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen (Germany).
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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.
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13-14 November 2018: The Consortium team met in Davos at PMOD (Switzerland) for a Consortium meeting.
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19-20 April 2018: The Consortium team met at the Observatoire de Paris (France) for the 1st Operation meeting organised by IAS
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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
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October 2017: SPICE has a logo!
- Summer 2017: SPICE has been delivered to Airbus and integrated on the spacecraft platform.