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Solar Orbiter is an ESA-led science mission that since its launch in 2020 explores the Sun and the heliosphere from an unique, elliptical orbit around our home star.
While the mission goals are science driven, it has been providing very valuable data for space weather purposes, due to its interesting configurations with Earth and Sun, and its data are currently used actively in Space Weather predictions.
Solar Orbiter may potentially also provide good test case data for Vigil. At least every two orbits (once per year), Solar Orbiter passes close to L5, the future home to Vigil. In the 2nd half of 2026, Solar Orbiter will also linger around L4 for a rather long period.
In this contribution we will look into the synergies of both missions and how Solar Orbiter data could potentially be used in preparation for Vigil.
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