UK industry to build Solar Orbiter satellite

[Chuff]

UK industry to build Solar Orbiter satellite

British industry will lead the production of Solar Orbiter (SolO), a spacecraft that will travel closer to the Sun than any satellite to date.

SolO will take pictures and measurements from inside the orbit of Mercury, to gain new insights on what drives the star's dynamic behaviour.

Nice to actually see the UK getting involved.

[Napoléon]

That's cool.

[Anomalocaris]

Nice change from Thatcher, who, when opportunistically poaching publicity by going to the mission control and seeing the Giotto space craft actually in the act of flying through Halley's comet's coma, nontheless could not resist grumbling, within earshot of the reporter microphone as it turned out, "what a waste of money".