The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket Launches NASA's Parker probe to touch Sun.
Eberechy's blog had earlier published a report about the launch from NASA.
Sunday, August 12, 2018 at 3:31am. From Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Florida. NASA launches Parker solar probe, a spacecraft with size of a small car and it's first ever humanity mission into a part of the Sun's atmosphere called Corona.
Here the spacecraft will directly explore Solar processes that are key to understanding and forcasting space weather events that can impact life on earth.
However at 5:33am according to NASA, the Mission Operations Manager reported that the spacecraft was healthy and operating normally and on its way to begin a seven year mission of extreme science.
The spacecraft will transmit it's first Science Observations in December, to begin a revolutionary understanding of the star which makes life possible on Earth. Over the next two months, Parker solar probe will fly towards Venus, to perform it's first Venus gravity assist in early October. A hand-break turn will maneuver the spacecraft arround the planet using Venus gravity to Frim the spacecraft Orbit tighter around the Sun.
In November, according to reports by NASA this first flyby will place parker solar probe in position to fly as close as 15 million miles from the Sun within the Corona, the Sun atmosphere. Closer than any thing made by humanity.
The Corona is 300 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
The mission is name for Eugene Parker, the physicist who first theorized the existence of the Solar wind in 1958. The first NASA mission to be named for a living researcher.
By: Ebere Onwuegbuchulam
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| Henry Parker watches the Lunch of the spacecraft named after him |
Eberechy's blog had earlier published a report about the launch from NASA.
Sunday, August 12, 2018 at 3:31am. From Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Florida. NASA launches Parker solar probe, a spacecraft with size of a small car and it's first ever humanity mission into a part of the Sun's atmosphere called Corona.
Here the spacecraft will directly explore Solar processes that are key to understanding and forcasting space weather events that can impact life on earth.
However at 5:33am according to NASA, the Mission Operations Manager reported that the spacecraft was healthy and operating normally and on its way to begin a seven year mission of extreme science.
The spacecraft will transmit it's first Science Observations in December, to begin a revolutionary understanding of the star which makes life possible on Earth. Over the next two months, Parker solar probe will fly towards Venus, to perform it's first Venus gravity assist in early October. A hand-break turn will maneuver the spacecraft arround the planet using Venus gravity to Frim the spacecraft Orbit tighter around the Sun.
In November, according to reports by NASA this first flyby will place parker solar probe in position to fly as close as 15 million miles from the Sun within the Corona, the Sun atmosphere. Closer than any thing made by humanity.
The Corona is 300 times hotter than the Sun's surface.
The mission is name for Eugene Parker, the physicist who first theorized the existence of the Solar wind in 1958. The first NASA mission to be named for a living researcher.
By: Ebere Onwuegbuchulam
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