NASA Parker Solar Probe Receives New Cutting-Edge Heat Shield

NASA Parker Solar Probe Receives New Cutting-Edge Heat Shield

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Cutting-Edge Heat Shield Installed on NASA’s Parker Solar Probe The launch of Parker Solar Probe, the mission that will get closer to the Sun than any human-made object has ever gone, is quickly approaching, and on June 27, 2018, Parker Solar Probe’s heat shield —...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Sun Study

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Sun Study

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Throughout its seven-year mission, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop through the Sun’s atmosphere 24 times, getting closer to our star than any spacecraft has gone before. The spacecraft will carry more than scientific instruments on this historic journey — it will also hold more than 1.1 million names submitted by the public to go to the Sun.