Preparations for Solar Orbiter vibration test

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft during preparations for the vibration test campaign at the IABG facility in Ottobrunn, Germany.
The mechanical vibration tests are designed to confirm and verify that the spacecraft can survive the liftoff and journey to reach its operational orbit.
Solar Orbiter will be launched in 2020 to study how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the vast bubble of charged particles blown by the solar wind into the interstellar medium.