Launch of the Parker Solar Probe probe

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Launch of the Parker Solar Probe probe







		
Launch of Parker Solar Probe. Credit: NASA / Bill Ingalls.

Hours before the sun came out over the horizon, the Parker Solar Probe probe was launched from Florida on Sunday, August 12 to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will carry out a historic mission. The ship will transmit its first scientific observations in December, beginning a revolution in our understanding of the star that makes life on Earth possible.

Smaller than a small car, the spacecraft took off at 7:31 GMT on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Air Force Station at Cape Canaveral. At 9:33 GMT, it was reported that the probe was in good condition and functioning normally.

During the first week of your trip, Parker Solar Probe will deploy its high gain antenna and its magnetometer. It will also perform the first of two parts of the deployment of its electric field antennas. Testing of its instruments will begin in early September and will last approximately four weeks, after which the probe can begin its scientific operations.

Throughout its seven years of mission, Parker Solar Probe will perform seven gravitational assist maneuvers over Venus and a total of 24 approaches to the Sun, traveling closer and closer to the star until its closest approach of 6 million kilometers. At that point, the ship will be moving at about 690,000 km / h, obtaining the record of the fastest object created by humanity.

The mission's findings will help researchers improve their predictions of space weather events, which have the potential to damage satellites and hurt astronauts in orbit, affect radio communications and, most severely, damage networks electric



The mission was named in honor of Eugene Parker, the physicist who theorized the existence of the solar wind in 1958. It is the first time that NASA names a mission in honor of a living researcher.

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