US & Europe Take Space Journey to Sun
NASA and ESA's Blackbird Mission Source: Davos Unprecedented Solar Orbiter Probe NASA and the European Space Agency have successfully launched the Solar Orbiter on a journey to the Sun, to take unprecedented views of its blazing solar poles. The Solar Orbiter took off on top of an Atlas 5 rocket. The Orbiter separated from the rocket within 53 minutes to go into space flight as planned and is now in communications with NASA. All of this happened in the past few days. This unique mission is going very well as it moves along on a very long journey to the Sun. Mission Unprecedented This US and European mission is unprecedented. It's expected to help scientists understand how the Sun's massive amount of energy affects humans in space and how it impacts all of us on the Earth. The mission will provide unique images, views and data of the sun's blazing pole regions, which are critical sources of data. Ten Year Journey The orbiter is equi