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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be the first-ever mission to "touch" the Sun. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will travel directly into the Sun's atmosphere about 4 million miles from our star's surface.
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Framed by a series of cabbage palms, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy common booster core is transported by truck to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 37 Horizontal Processing Facility after arriving at Port Canaveral. The Delta IV Heavy will launch NASA’s upcoming Parker Solar Probe mission. Photo credits: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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History of PSP
The Parker Solar Probe concept was developed by the Fields and Particles Group published in 1958 by various space missions, including a "solar probe to pass through " from the recommendation report. "The orbit of Mercury to study particles and fields around the Sun." Studies in the 1970s and 1980s reaffirmed its importance, but was always delayed by cost. Cost reduced in the 1990s a Solar Orbiter mission was worked on, and a more capable Solar Probe mission served as one of the key pieces of the same name. The Exoplanet/Solar Probe (OPSP) program formulated by NASA in the late 1990s.The first three missions of the program were scheduled as follows: Solar Orbiter, Pluto and Kuiper belt exploration Pluto Kuiper Express mission and Europa Orbiter astrobiology mission focusing on Europa.
FIELDS Antenna(4)
ISIS Suite
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Magnometers (3)
WISPR
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will be the first-ever mission to "touch" the Sun. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will travel directly into the Sun's atmosphere about 4 million miles from our star's surface.
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Purposes of Parker Solar Probe
It tracks the flow of energy that heats the solar corona and accelerates the solar wind. How is energy from the lower solar atmosphere transferred and distributed to the corona and solar wind? What processes shape the non-equilibrium velocity distributions observed throughout the heliosphere? How do processes in the corona affect the properties of the solar wind in the heliosphere? How is the magnetic field in solar wind source regions connected to the photosphere and heliosphere? Are the sources of the solar wind constant or intermittent? How do structures observed in corona turn into solar wind? What are the roles of shocks, reconnections, waves and turbulence in the acceleration of energetic particles? What are the resource populations and physical conditions required for energetic particle acceleration? How are energetic particles transported in the corona and heliosphere? It aims to answer questions like the above ones.
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Parker Solar Probe’s Thermal Protection System is lowered into the Thermal Vacuum Chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in preparation for environmental testing on Dec. 7, 2017. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
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A memory card containing 1,137,202 names submitted by the public to travel to the Sun was installed on Parker Solar Probe on May 18, 2018. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
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Parker Solar Probe was encapsulated within its fairing on July 16, 2018, in preparation for its move to Space Launch Complex 37. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
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The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA’s Parker Solar Probe on its voyage to the Sun, Aug. 12, 2018, from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into the Sun’s atmosphere, called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth. �Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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The right side of this image — from WISPR’s inner telescope — has a 40-degree field of view, with its right edge 58.5 degrees from the Sun’s center. The left side of the image is from WISPR’s outer telescope, which has a 58-degree field of view and extends to about 160 degrees from the Sun. There is a parallax of about 13 degrees in the apparent position of the Sun as viewed from Earth and from
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Parker Solar Probe’s speed, position and round-trip light time as of Oct. 31. Track Parker Solar Probe’s speed and position online.
The probe successfully performed the first of seven Venus flybys planned on October 3, 2018, and came within approximately 2,400 kilometers (1,500 mi) of Venus to reduce the probe's speed and orbit closer to the Sun. After the first Venus flyby, the probe will be in an elliptical orbit with a period of 150 days (two-thirds of Venus), three orbits while Venus makes two. On the second flight, the duration is reduced to 130 days. After less than two orbits (after just 198 days), it encounters Venus for the third time at an earlier point in Venus' orbit. This encounter shortens its period to half that of Venus, or about 112.5 days. After two orbits, it meets Venus for the fourth time at approximately the same location, reducing its period to about 102 days. After 237 days, it meets Venus for the fifth time, shortening its period to about 96 days, which is three-sevenths of Venus. Then Venus makes three or seven orbits. Almost two years after the fifth encounter, the sixth encounter reduces its period to 92 days, which is two-fifths of Venus.
Parker Solar Venus Probe Logbook
Testing Phase
On Nov. 3, Parker Solar Probe passed vibration testing at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, or APL, in Laurel, Maryland, where it was designed and built. On Nov. 14, the spacecraft successfully completed acoustic testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and is now being prepared for further environmental tests. Goddard’s Acoustic Test Chamber is a 42-foot-tall chamber that uses 6-foot-tall speakers –which can create sound levels of up to 150 decibels – to simulate the extreme noise levels of a rocket launch. While vibration testing focuses on how much the spacecraft will shake during launch, acoustic testing subjects the probe to intense sound forces, like those generated by the Delta IV Heavy. Each type of force affects the spacecraft differently, so both tests are necessary.
The heat shield was recently moved from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, or APL, in Laurel, Maryland, to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt for testing in NASA's large Goddard Thermal Vacuum Chamber. The thermal vacuum chamber will simulate the harsh conditions a heat shield must withstand during a mission: this includes the vacuum of airless space as well as large temperature fluctuations between hot and cold as the spacecraft crosses the Sun and returns to space. Because NASA's Goddard Thermal Vacuum Camera cannot simulate the very high temperatures of the Sun, the thermal protection system's ability to withstand extreme temperatures has already been proven in testing elsewhere.
Testing Phase
The probe successfully performed the first of seven Venus flybys planned on October 3, 2018, and came within approximately 2,400 kilometers (1,500 mi) of Venus to reduce the probe's speed and orbit closer to the Sun. After the first Venus flyby, the probe will be in an elliptical orbit with a period of 150 days (two-thirds of Venus), three orbits while Venus makes two. On the second flight, the duration is reduced to 130 days. After less than two orbits (after just 198 days), it encounters Venus for the third time at an earlier point in Venus' orbit. This encounter shortens its period to half that of Venus, or about 112.5 days. After two orbits, it meets Venus for the fourth time at approximately the same location, reducing its period to about 102 days. After 237 days, it meets Venus for the fifth time, shortening its period to about 96 days, which is three-sevenths of Venus. Then Venus makes three or seven orbits. Almost two years after the fifth encounter, the sixth encounter reduces its period to 92 days, which is two-fifths of Venus.
ISʘIS
The Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun — ISʘIS, pronounced “ee-sis” and including the symbol for the Sun in its acronym — uses two complementary instruments in one combined scientific investigation to measure particles across a wide range of energies. By measuring electrons, protons and ions, ISʘIS will understand the particles’ lifecycles — where they came from, how they became accelerated and how they move out from the Sun through interplanetary space. The two energetic particle instruments on ISʘIS are called EPI-Lo and EPI-Hi (EPI stands for Energetic Particle Instrument).
SWEAP
The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons investigation, or SWEAP, gathers observations using two complementary instruments: the Solar Probe Cup, or SPC, and the Solar Probe Analyzers, or SPAN. The instruments count the most abundant particles in the solar wind — electrons, protons and helium ions — and measure such properties as velocity, density, and temperature to improve our understanding of the solar wind and coronal plasma.
FIELDS
Surveyor of the invisible forces, the FIELDS instrument suite captures the scale and shape of electric and magnetic fields in the Sun's atmosphere. FIELDS measures waves and turbulence in the inner heliosphere with high time resolution to understand the fields associated with waves, shocks and magnetic reconnection, a process by which magnetic field lines explosively realign.
WISPR
The Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe is the only imaging instrument aboard the spacecraft. WISPR looks at the large-scale structure of the corona and solar wind before the spacecraft flies through it. About the size of a shoebox, WISPR takes images from afar of structures like coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, jets and other ejecta from the Sun. WISPR helps link what’s happening in the large-scale coronal structure to the detailed physical measurements being captured directly in the near-Sun environment.
I was going to be the first satellite to enter the corina of the sun, the years 2018 showed the month of August, my construction was finished and the big day had come, I would go into space
I was going to pass by Venus and observe it, and I was going to do my most important task, that is, the task of entering the corina of the sun.
hi guys i am parker solar probe today i will tell you my own story in 2009 nasa gave approval for my construction and i started making it
I was going to do your duty, I was really excited, the countdown had begun 10-9-8-7 I almost fainted from excitement 6-5-4-3 I held my breath and prepared myself 2-1 and my take off was successful I was very happy I could finally go into space
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My first task would be to examine Venus and I had to send the images I examined to the main center of NASA.
and i did it successfully then i started to make my way towards the sun i was very, very excited even though i was far away the sun was too big
I would be so close to the sun that I could almost hug it the sun was so big and bright
I was sending your names to the sun, maybe one of these names is your name.
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