Solar Orbiter: Sun mission blasts off

UCL built instruments for the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, which launched today. Professor Chris Owen, Professor Lucie Green, Professor Sarah Matthews and Dr Rob Wicks (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) comment on their mission to study the Sun up-close.

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