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RUAG Space: Key products for Sun Explorer Solar Orbiter by Staff Writers Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 31, 2020
On 7th/8th February a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with Sun Explorer Solar Orbiter will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. RUAG Space supplied the thermal insulation, the structure of the satellite and the on-board computer, the so-called brain. The Solar Orbiter is a joint ESA/NASA collaboration and is scheduled for launch for 7th/8th February on a ULA Atlas V launch vehicle. The satellite will get very close to the Sun. It will be the first satellite to provide close-up images of the Sun's polar regions. It will study the solar wind, the so-called space weather, as well as all layers of the Sun, except its core.
RUAG Space on board Due to its extreme proximity to the Sun, Solar Orbiter's heat shield will be exposed to 13 times more solar radiation than on Earth. Some parts of the spacecraft will reach extremely high temperatures up to several hundred degrees Celsius. RUAG Space has developed a special thermal insulation for these conditions, meeting exactly the requirements for Solar Orbiter. This means extremely high temperatures up to several hundred degrees Celsius. RUAG Space has supplied the spacecraft structure. It is made of a carbon fiber backbone in cylinder form, and a number of aluminum sandwich panels to which all the subsystems are mounted.
NSF's newest solar telescope produces first images, most detailed images of the sun Washington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 Just released first images from the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the sun's surface and preview the world-class products to come from this preeminent 4-meter solar telescope. NSF's Inouye Solar Telescope will enable a new era of solar science and a leap forward in understanding the sun and its impacts on our planet. Activity on the sun, known as space weather, can affect systems on Earth. Magnetic eruptions on the sun can impact air t ... read more
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