Tag: Parker Solar Probe
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NASA and ESA Solar Stalkers mark milestones
Two intrepid spacecraft are dancing with the Sun and making great progress toward the goal of learning more about our star. After NASA announced that Parker Solar Probe (PSP) had sent the “Status A” beacon after its fifth close flyby of the Sun, the European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that its Solar Orbiter has…
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Parker Solar Probe sets records during first encounter with the sun
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Nov. 8 with confirmation of Parker Solar Probe’s health after perihelion. Artist’s concept of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/Steve Gribben Less than three months after its fiery departure from Cape Canaveral, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew within 15 million miles (24 million kilometers) of the sun Monday for the $1.5 billion mission’s…
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Fastest, closest, hottest: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe blasts off to ‘touch the sun’
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket sends NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spaceward from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. (NASA via YouTube) NASA today sent a super-shielded spacecraft known as the Parker Solar Probe on a mission that will take it closer to the sun than any other spacecraft has flown, with…
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ULA’s heavy-lifter rolled out for solar probe launch
The Delta 4-Heavy rocket slated to launch NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was lifted vertical on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral on April 17, one day after it rolled to the pad from a nearby horizontal integration hangar. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman Gearing up for a predawn blastoff July 31, launch crews have positioned…
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NASA unveils renamed solar probe
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION NASA’s first mission to go to the sun, the Parker Solar Probe, is named after Eugene Parker who first theorized that the sun constantly sends out a flow of particles and energy called the solar wind. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL A NASA spacecraft being readied for launch in 2018 will…