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Parker Solar Probe
Delta IV Heavy · Heliophysics
2018Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral
Mission
Flying into the Sun’s atmosphere (or corona) for the first time. Coming closer to the Sun than any previous spacecraft, Parker Solar Probe will employ a combination of in situ measurements and imaging to achieve the mission’s primary scientific goal: to understand how the Sun’s corona is heated and how the solar wind is accelerated.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- ULA
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 37B
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2 + NASA