4779 20200210114302.0 Vanlommel, Petra 10 February - launch of Solar Orbiter 2020 2020-02-06 NASA will launch the Solar Orbiter spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, with 10 scientific instruments on board, including the space telescope Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI). Solar Orbiter is an ESA mission, with an important contribution from NASA, which will study the Sun from close up. The EUI instrument was built by a European consortium under the leadership of the Centre Spatial de Liège. After the launch, the Royal Observatory of Belgium will manage the observations and coordinate the analysis of its unique solar images. STCE Solar Orbiter EUI corona EUV images Pham, Le Binh San Berghmans, David Dominique, Marie Gissot, Samuel Verbeeck, Francis Zhukov, Andrei david.berghmans@observatoire.be https://www.astro.oma.be/nl/lancering-solar-orbiter/ https://www.astro.oma.be/en/launch-of-solar-orbiter/ https://www.astro.oma.be/fr/lancement-de-solar-orbiter/ PRESSREL