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

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.

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.

One includes the Mars orbit, and the other shows only the inner heliosphere (named "zoom").

All movies are available with 1080p (default) and 4k resolution (indicated with 4k in the file name).

Last update of trajectories: March 2025

The spacecraft positions have all been generated with spiceypy from the mission kernels.

Austrian Space Weather Office / GeoSphere Austria, Möstl/Davies/Weiler