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Parker Solar Probe
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NASA robotic space probe to probe the outer corona of the Sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is a robotic spacecraft designed to study the Sun's outer atmosphere, called the corona. By getting closer to the Sun than any previous spacecraft, it helps scientists understand fundamental processes of the Sun that affect space weather and conditions throughout our solar system.
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Key facts
- Names
- Solar Probe (before 2002), Solar Probe Plus (2010–2017), Parker Solar Probe (since 2017)
- Mission type
- Heliophysics
- Operator
- NASA / Applied Physics Laboratory
- Cospar id
- 2018-065A
- Website
- parkersolarprobe .jhuapl .edu
- Mission duration
- 7 years (planned), Elapsed: 7 years, 9 months and 21 days
- Manufacturer
- Applied Physics Laboratory
- Launch mass
- 685 kg (1,510 lb)
- Dry mass
- 555 kg (1,224 lb)
- Payload mass
- 50 kg (110 lb)
- Dimensions
- 1 × 3 × 2.3 m (3.3 × 9.8 × 7.5 ft)
- Power
- 343 W (at closest approach)
- Launch date
- 12 August 2018, 07:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy / Star 48BV
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral , SLC ‑ 37
- Contractor
- United Launch Alliance
- Reference system
- Heliocentric orbit
- Semi major axis
- 0.388 AU (58.0 million km; 36.1 million mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Living With a Star
- Named after
- Sun
- Official name
- Parker Solar Probe
- Country
- United States
- Followed by
- Solar Orbiter
- Follows
- BARREL
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 2.3
- Mass
- 685
- Orbital period
- 88
- Official website
- parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu
- Image
- Parker Solar Probe.jpg
- Length
- 3
- Significant event
- flyby
Show 14 more facts
- periapsis
- 6900000
- Commons category
- Parker Solar Probe
- space launch vehicle
- Delta IV Heavy
- hashtag
- ParkerSolarProbe
- web feed URL
- blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/feed
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2018-08-12
- apoapsis
- 109300000
- service life
- 7
- orbital inclination
- 3.4
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.388
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
- space tug
- Star 48
- type of orbit
- heliocentric orbit
- social media followers
- 8881
Sources (13)
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Encyclopedic overview
Mission insignia Large Strategic Science Missions Heliophysics Division
Living With a Star program
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parker Solar Probe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.