Vigil Deep-Space Space Weather Observatory
ESA’s Vigil is a development-stage deep-space space-weather observatory planned for launch in 2031 to monitor solar activity continuously from the Sun–Earth L5 Lagrange point and provide earlier warnings of hazardous solar storms.
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- Family Name
- Vigil
- Full Name
- Vigil Deep-Space Space Weather Observatory
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- observatoryresearch
- Status
- development
- Type
- spacecraft
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- Description
- ESA’s Vigil is a development-stage deep-space space-weather observatory planned for launch in 2031 to monitor solar activity continuously from the Sun–Earth L5 Lagrange point and provide earlier warnings of hazardous solar storms.
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- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 00:49:10 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 14, 2026 at 20:21:43 UTC