Animations of spacecraft trajectories as context for Solar Orbiter (2020-2030) and PUNCH (2025-2029)

<p dir="ltr">Starting from the Solar Orbiter launch in April 2020, we present here animations of the trajectories of Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, BepiColombo, STEREO-A and JUICE, with the 4 inner planets, for 2020/4-12/2029, in 6 hour time resolution.</p><p dir="ltr">Further, there are 4 more movies with 6 hour time resolution for 2025/4 - 12/2029, covering a shorter timerange as context for the PUNCH mission launched in March 2025. </p><p dir="ltr">One includes the Mars orbit, and the other shows only the inner heliosphere (named "zoom").</p><p dir="ltr">All movies are available with 1080p (default) and 4k resolution (indicated with 4k in the file name).</p><p dir="ltr">Last update of trajectories: March 2025</p><p dir="ltr">The spacecraft positions have all been generated with spiceypy from the mission kernels.</p><p dir="ltr">Austrian Space Weather Office / GeoSphere Austria, Möstl/Davies/Weiler</p>