🚀Launchpad

🛸 Space probe

Parker Solar Probe

Status
Active
Operator
NASA
Launched
Aug 12, 2018
Orbit
Elliptical solar orbit — closest point just ~6.1 million km above the Sun's surface
COSPAR ID
2018-065A

The fastest spacecraft ever (up to 690,000 km/h): Parker 'touches' the Sun, flying through its corona to solve puzzles like the corona's extreme heat and the origin of the solar wind.

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