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Venutianxspring, 14 dni temu w ESA to Launch In-Orbit Refuelling Demonstration Mission

This is exciting news

threelonmusketeers, 14 dni temu w ESA to Launch In-Orbit Refuelling Demonstration Mission

I wish they mentioned what propellant they’ll be testing. I’m assuming some hypergols or some gas for ion thrusters.

threelonmusketeers, 3 dni temu w Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus

Today’s flyby will be the first to significantly ‘tilt’ the spacecraft’s orbit and allow it to see the Sun’s polar regions, which cannot be seen from Earth.

Huh, it never occurred to me that we haven’t seen what the Sun looks like from above or below the plane of the solar system.