Delta IV Heavy
SuccessParker Solar Probe · United Launch Alliance
Launch time (NET)
Sunday, Aug 12, 2018, 07:31 UTC
Launch window
Sunday, Aug 12, 2018, 07:31 UTC – Sunday, Aug 12, 2018, 08:36 UTC
Provider
United Launch Alliance
Rocket
Launch pad
Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA · Open map
Status
Success
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Mission
Parker Solar Probe
Type
Heliophysics
Orbit
Heliocentric N/A (Helio-N/A)
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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