The Atlas V rocket with Solar Orbiter moved from the Vertical Integration Facility to Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral on February 8, 2020, for the ESA-NASA mission to study the Sun’s atmosphere and solar wind and capture first images of its poles.

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