06 December 2019
Parker Solar Probe reveals major new insights on the Sun
... from the closest-ever look inside our star’s atmosphere, the corona. Launched in August 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe that is packed with cutting-edge scientific instruments to measure the environment around the spacecraft, has completed...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
... protect a spacecraft and its instruments from the heat,” said Adam Szabo, the mission scientist for Parker Solar Probe. “Recent advances in materials science gave us the material to fashion a heat shield in front of the spacecraft not only...
31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
...And we’re very proud to be able to carry Gene’s name with us on this amazing voyage of discovery," said Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist Nicola Fox, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Nonetheless, as a recent study by the...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... complementary spacecraft studying the Sun at close proximity: it will join NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which is already engaged in its mission. Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe have each been designed and placed into a unique orbit to accomplish...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
.... This ESA-led mission with strong NASA participation, will also work closely with the US agency’s Parker Solar Probe, by collecting complementary datasets that will allow more science to be extracted from the two missions than either...
08 April 2019
Rain on the Sun links long-standing solar mysteries
.... Mason is currently working on a computer simulation to elucidate this new explanation, but she also hopes that the Parker Solar Probe, which is traveling closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before, could provide much needed observational evidence...
