#helioscience

Real space mission

European Space Agency launched Solar orbiter in February 2020, starting its primary mission in November 2021, will provide the closest ever images of the Sun, the first ever close-up images of the Sun’s polar regions, and measure the composition of the solar wind and linking it to its area of origin on the Sun’s surface.

You can learn more about this mission here: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter