Solar Orbiter Venus Flyby

Photo Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

• Date: Tue • Sep 3rd, 2030 12:00 AM UTC
• Location: Venus
• Type: Flyby

Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will perform a gravity assist maneuver with Venus on September 2, 2030. Throughout its mission it also makes repeated gravity assist flybys of Venus to get closer to the Sun, and to change its orbital inclination, boosting it out of the ecliptic plane, to get the best – and first – views of the Sun’s poles.

Related Launch

• European Space Agency Solar Orbiter (Atlas V 411)

Agencies

• European Space Agency (ESA)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Last Updated: 2025-09-10T15:48:16Z