NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. The Parker Solar Probe's mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail.
The mission was greenlit and eventually named after Eugene Parker, the solar physicist who predicted the existence of the solar wind in the 1950s and lived to see the launch of his namesake ...
Over the past six years, ParkerSolarProbe has been preparing for this milestone. Since its 2018 launch, the spacecraft completed seven Venus flybys, using the planet's gravity to inch ...
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