Parker Solar Probe
A NASA heliophysics spacecraft that measures the solar wind. At its closest approach it comes within about 3.9 million miles of the Sun. Mass, management, launch, and speed below are the figures NASA prints.
- What
- Parker Solar Probe
- Where
- Solar orbit. Launch site: Cape Canaveral (NASA page).
- When
- Aug 12, 2018
- Who
- NASA
- Status
- U.S. government work (public domain). Credit: NASA. Linked, not rehosted.
Sources
Record details
Public NASA mission page. Managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Source: NASA.