The Atlas V rocket carrying Solar Orbiter rolled from the Vertical Integration Facility to Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral on February 8, 2020, for the ESA-NASA mission studying the Sun and providing first images of its poles, managed by NASA Launch Services Program.

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