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Solar Orbiter

ESA/NASA Sun observatory in an inclined heliocentric orbit, imaging the poles and sampling the solar wind up close.

JPL Horizons · to Nov 2030 Trajectory basis, the same label the app shows on the selection card.

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Trajectory Catalog

Trajectory from Horizons state vectors

Solar Orbiter's position is interpolated between 1,959 heliocentric state-vector samples from JPL Horizons that run through 2030-11-01. Past the last sample the marker holds its final position.

SourceJPL Horizons · record solar-orbiter
Epoch2020-02-11 to 2030-11-01
MethodJ2000 equatorial, Sun-centred position samples baked at author time by scripts/bake-trajectories.mjs; the app interpolates linearly between adjacent samples.
UncertaintyHorizons state vectors are precise to the metre scale; linear interpolation between samples adds an error that grows with the sample spacing (days for cruise, minutes around flybys).
LimitPosition only. Spacecraft attitude (which way it points) is not modelled, and no covariance is stored.
Physical data Catalog

Bulk properties

Solar Orbiter: mass 1.800 × 10^3 kg. These values are bundled with the object record and drive the rendered size.

SourceJPL Horizons
Description Undocumented

Description and facts

The short description and the fact list are written by the Space Time authors for orientation. They are not quoted from a catalog field and carry no citation of their own.

SourceSpace Time editorial text

Trajectory coverage: 2020-02-11 to 2030-11-01 (1,959 samples). Outside that window the marker holds its last known position.

What is not measured

Nothing on this page is a reconstruction or a schematic; every record above is observed, catalogued or computed.

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  • Description: The short description and the fact list are written by the Space Time authors for orientation. They are not quoted from a catalog field and carry no citation of their own.

Dataset freshness

Snapshots this page depends on, read from the generated manifests at request time.
DatasetLast refreshedHorizonAutomated
Spacecraft trajectories (baked keyframes)
JPL Horizons
 no snapshot date Per craft: each evidence page states the first and last sample date No, refreshed by hand
scripts/bake-trajectories.mjs

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