Nasa Parker Solar Probe Ticket

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Nasa parker solar probe ticket.

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. And you can send your name along for the ride. Get the latest updates on nasa missions watch nasa tv live and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. 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.

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. Get the latest updates on nasa missions watch nasa tv live and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind. Submit your name to fly aboard the parker solar probe spacecraft. The parker solar probe abbreviated psp.

Nasa s parker solar probe will be the first ever mission to touch the sun. 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. Names to fly with parker solar probe. Be a part of the first mission to touch the sun.

Parker solar probe now holds the record for closest approach to the sun by a human made object. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26 55 million miles from the sun s surface on oct. Edt as calculated by the parker solar probe team. 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.

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.