The mission launched in April to test a cost-effective form of space travel that relies on the Sun, but it's not going as planned. Reading time 2 minutes It’s been a few months since launch, and ...
The Solar Close Observations and Proximity Experiments (SCOPE) mission will send a spacecraft into the solar atmosphere and follow an orbit with perihelion, aphelion, and inclination of 5 R⊙, 123 R⊙, ...