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The Parker Solar Probe mission

Parker Solar Probe

The Parker Solar Probe (PSP), also known as Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+, is a robotic spacecraft launched by NASA in 2018 with the objective of making observations of the outer corona of the Sun. The project was announced in fiscal 2009. 

Parker Solar Probe will provide new data in Sun's corona and solar wind. PSP is a spacecraft that uses breakthrough technology and autonomy to endure heat and radiation like no other mission. It will also help us to forecast major space-weather events.

Parker Solar Probe images

It became the first NASA spacecraft named after a living person, as in 2017 it was named after physicist Eugene Newman Parker who is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Features of PSP

  • Parker Solar Probe speed(speed of parker solar probe): around 125 thousand kph
  • Parker Solar Probe launch: August 12, 2018, at 7:31 UTC
Parker Solar Probe images
  • Launch mass: 685 kg
  • Distance from Sun's Surface: about 83 million km
  • Launch Vehicle: Delta IV-Heavy with Upper Stage
  • Orbit period: 88 days
  • Official Website - http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/
Parker Solar Probe images





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