Solar Orbiter

Solar Orbiter joins NASA’s Parker Solar Probe in studying our star from closer than any spacecraft before them. Working together, Solar Orbiter's comprehensive suite of instruments and NASA’s Parker Solar Probe's up-close view of the Sun provide a never-before-seen global view of our star. Various conjunctions of the two missions over their life spans allow observations along different points of the same magnetic field lines and outflow of material, or allow one mission to provide a larger context view of the space the other one is traveling through.