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Making the Solar Orbiter with Jessica Marshall of Airbus

Tue 16 March 2021

https://outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/programme/cpc

Studying the Sun from a unique distance, Solar Orbiter’s mission is to explore how the Sun creates the heliosphere – the bubble-like region of space dominated by the solar wind. Designed and built by an Airbus Defence and Space-led team, the spacecraft will scrutinise the Sun in unprecedented detail.  It will make comprehensive measurements of the nascent solar wind while travelling closer to this star than the planet Mercury.  
Launched in February 2020, Solar Orbiter is a mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 


This sixth form physics lecture has 2 parts: at 1600, an Isaac Physics problem solving session takes viewers through problems loosely related to the lecture subject, the the lecture itself will run from 1700 to 1800.

See the event landing page https://isaacphysics.org/pages/cpc_lectures for more information

To join the livestream, go to https://outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/programme/cpc, scroll down to the lecture and click on the link.

Cost: Free