The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is out of contact with mission control after its closest-ever pass of the sun on Tuesday, Dec. 24.
Probe Design and Future Plans The Parker Solar Probe is engineered to withstand extreme conditions. Its cutting-edge heat shield, made from carbon foam, protects the spacecraft's instruments ...
To get so close, the Parker Solar Probe had to withstand the sun's extreme heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.
NASA is about to make history. Its Parker Solar Probe is set to fly closer to the sun than any object in history. The mission ...