LSP Solar Orbiter Spacecraft Group

Members of the Goddard Space Flight Center Solar Orbiter Collaboration Project Office, along with Launch Services Program’s (LSP) Jim Behling (back left), launch site integration manager, pose in front of the Solar Orbiter spacecraft inside the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida. Solar Orbiter is an international cooperative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA. The spacecraft will provide the first images of the Sun’s poles. NASA’s LSP, based at Kennedy Space Center, is managing the launch.