Parker Solar Probe & Solar Orbiter

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The Parker Solar Probe will study how the sun works. It'll launch this summer and get within 3.85 million miles of the sun's surface. The Solar Orbiter is a European Space Agency (ESA) project and will get detailed measurements of the sun's heliosphere.
Two Spacecraft Will Get Closer to the Sun Than Ever Before - Universe Today
Parker Solar Probe - Wikipedia
Solar Orbiter - Wikipedia

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Traveling to the sun: Why won't Parker Solar Probe melt?

Inside the corona, it's also, of course, unimaginably hot. The spacecraft will travel through material with temperatures greater than a million degrees Fahrenheit while being bombarded with intense sun light.

So, why won't it melt?

Parker Solar Probe has been designed to withstand the extreme conditions and temperature fluctuations for the mission. The key lies in its custom heat shield and an autonomous system that helps protect the mission from the Sun's intense light emission, but does allow the coronal material to "touch" the spacecraft.

 

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The Parker Solar Probe will launch into space tomorrow. It will be the fastest manmade object traveling at 430,000 mph.
The countdown begins: Parker Solar Probe blasts off tomorrow on historic mission to touch the SUN | Daily Mail Online

NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Probe will blast off atop a Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral on morning of Aug 11

• Will eventually hit record-breaking speeds of 430,000 miles per hour, and will completes 24 orbits of the sun

• The launch window opens at 3:33 a.m. (EDT) on August 11 and closes on August 23, according to NASA

• Using a series of gravity assists from Venus, the probe will get just 3.8 million miles away from sun’s surface

• This will put Parker probe well within the sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere - closer than any craft has come

 

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The Parker Solar Probe launched into space.

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this is gonna be interesting

 

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NASA reveals Parker Solar Probe is now closer to the solar surface than any spacecraft has ever got | Daily Mail Online

The $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe (PSP) launched in August on a historic journey to 'touch the sun'

• On Monday surpassed the record of 26.6 million miles (43 million kilometers) set by Helios-2 back in 1976

• Next week will become first spacecraft to fly through the outermost part of the star's atmosphere

• Will make 24 close approaches to the sun over the next seven years, ultimately coming within just 3.8 m miles

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