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Press releases (SPICE and Solar Orbiter)
SPICE coverage of the spring 2022 perihelion
- ESA website
SPICE full mosaic of the Sun, 7th March 2022
- ESA website
SPICE and Solar Orbiter first light images released, 16th July 2020
- The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Press Release
- The New York Times article
- Nature press release
- BBC article
Follow SPICE during the cruise phase.
- 23 April 2020: SPICE receives "First Light"
- 25 February 2020: SPICE successfully switched on
Goodbye Solar Orbiter! Press releases following Solar Orbiter successful tests and shipping to the USA
- 18 October 2019: Solar Orbiter Satellite Successfully Tested (IABG)
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18 October 2019: Airbus built Solar Orbiter heads for the Sun in Florida (Airbus)
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18 October 2019: European SolO probe ready to take on audacious mission (BBC)
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18 October 2019: Solar Orbiter passes endurance tests (Max Planck Society)
- 18 October 2019: Solar Orbiter leaves Europe for the USA (spaceref)
Solar Orbiter testing is finished! Press releases following the testings throughout the months
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23 September 2019: Electric and magnetic tests (ESA)
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2 August 2019: Zero Gravity (ESA)
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1 April 2019: Vibrations (ESA)
Previous news about SPICE
- 08 March 2022: SPICE data release v2.0.
- 23 December 2021: SPICE data release v1.0.
- 12/13 May 2021: SPICE operations consortium meeting (online).
- 13/15 October 2020: SPICE operations consortium meeting (online).
- 16 July 2020: The first images and spectra from SPICE have been released, along the first light data from the other instruments.
- 8-9 June 2020: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the SPICE consortium has met online.
- 23 April 2020: SPICE has obtained its first light! Press release from RAL here.
- 20 March 2020: SPICE is currently undergoing commissioning. All of the individual subsystems tested so have passed with flying colours and earlier this week the team successfully opened the SPICE detector door!
- 25 February 2020: SPICE successfully switched on! Press release from RAL here.
- 9-10 February 2020: Solar Orbiter was launch in the night of 9-10 February 2020, from Cape Canaveral, with SPICE onboard.
- February 2020: Small SPICE consortium meeting planned on Thursday 6 2020 in the afternoon, ahead of the launch.
- January 2020: SPICE is now on social media! Twitter: @spice_on_SolO and Instagram: @solarorbiter_spice. Follow us!
- End of 2019: Solar Orbiter is undergoing unpacking operations at the Cape Canaveral, for a launch planned in the night of 5-6 February 2020.
- 19-20 November 2019: The Consortium met at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (United Kingdom).
- 1 November 2019: Solar Orbiter travelled on an Antonov cargo plane and safely arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it is getting ready for launch in February 2020.
- 18 October 2019: A media event was organised at IABG near Munich, a last goodbye to the spacecraft before it is being sent to the USA for rocket integration.
- End of summer 2019: All the environmental testings of the spacecraft have been completed (Testing on ESA website)
- 14-15 May 2019: The Consortium met at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen (Germany).
- 21-23 January 2019: Members of the SPICE Consortium participated in the SOWG#13 at ESAC to discuss operations to be made during certain observation phases of the Solar Orbiter mission.
- 13-14 November 2018: The Consortium team met in Davos at PMOD (Switzerland) for a Consortium meeting.
- 19-20 April 2018: The Consortium team met at the Observatoire de Paris (France) for the 1st Operation meeting organised by IAS
- 15-16 November 2017: The Consortium team met at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) to discuss the instrument delivery and operations in preparation of the launch of Solar Orbiter
- October 2017: SPICE has a logo!
- Summer 2017: SPICE has been delivered to Airbus and integrated on the spacecraft platform.