Date Time Solar Orbiter: one year in space Imperial’s magnetometer instrument aboard the Solar Orbiter spacecraft has seen a successful and eventful first year in space. Since the spacecraft launched on 10 February 2020, the magnetometer (MAG) has taken billions of measurements of the magnetic field coming from the Sun, revealing new insights into the solar wind and how it creates ‘space weather’. After spending over ten years designing and building the instrument, it is fabulous to be getting all this data back, revealing the secrets of the solar wind. Helen O’Brien /Public Release. This material comes from the originating organization and may be of a point-in-time nature, edited for clarity, style and length. View in full here.