Nasa Parker Solar Probe Ticket

Nasa s parker solar probe will be the first ever mission to touch the sun.

Nasa parker solar probe ticket.

The parker solar probe abbreviated psp. Get the latest updates on nasa missions watch nasa tv live and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. Previously solar probe solar probe plus or solar probe is a nasa robotic spacecraft launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the sun. And you can send your name along for the ride.

On may 18 2018 a memory card containing over a million names submitted by the public was installed onto nasa s parker solar probe spacecraft before its historic journey to the sun. Submit your name and it will be included in a memory card that will fly aboard parker solar probe spacecraft. Parker solar probe now holds the record for closest approach to the sun by a human made object. Submit your name to fly aboard the parker solar probe spacecraft.

Names to fly with parker solar probe. 29 2018 at about 1 04 p m. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26 55 million miles from the sun s surface on oct. Be a part of the first mission to touch the sun.

The parker solar probe will approach from 4 million miles away nasa to protect the spacecraft from the intense heat and radiation of the star a 4 5 inch thick carbon composite. Nasa s parker solar probe mission will launch in summer 2018 to travel closer to the sun than any spacecraft before it facing brutal heat and radiation conditions. It will approach to within 9 86 solar radii 6 9 million km or 4 3 million miles from the center of the sun and by 2025 will travel at closest approach as fast as 690 000 km h. Edt as calculated by the parker solar probe team.

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