NASA plans to launch the first mission to the Sun, named Solar Probe Plus, as early as 2015, after a comprehensive feasibility study that significantly changed the original Solar Probe mission concept. The original Solar Probe mission concept, based on a Jupiter gravity assist trajectory, was no...
© NASAHumans have landed men on the moon, explored the solar system in detail, found habitable worlds in neighboring solar systems and sent probes far into interstellar space. Now NASA wants to send a spacecraft to “touch the sun.” The Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission is due to ...
Originally, the mission was billed as Solar Probe Plus. But in 2017, only a few days before the scientist's 90th birthday, NASA renamed the mission to honor Parker for his contributions. "This is the first time NASA has named a spacecraft for a living individual," Thomas Zurbuchen, assoc...
Don't call it Solar Probe Plus anymore. NASA's upcoming sun-studying mission, which will come much closer to Earth's star than any spacecraft in history, has been renamed the Parker Solar Probe, agency officials announced today (May 31). The new moniker honors pioneering University of ...
这都只是Parker Solar Probe最最初步的成果而已。从现在一直到2025年之间,它将逐步靠着金星的引力协助,一步一步降低近日点,最终可以近到离太阳表面只有现在的1/4。NASA是为了小心起见,为了避免Parker的“遮阳罩”撑不住,所以先从高处开始收集数据。这也意味着随着近日点越来越下降,Parker Solar Probe还能为我们带来...
NASA prepares to launch Parker Solar Probe, a mission to touch the Sun No earlier than Aug. 6, 2018, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy will thunder to space carrying the car-sized spacecraft, which will study the Sun clo...
The Wide-field Imager for Solar PRobe Plus (WISPR) is the sole imager aboard the Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission scheduled for launch in 2018. SPP will be a unique mission designed to orbit as close as 7 million km (9.86 solar radii) from Sun center. WISPR employs a 95∘radial by ...
two upcoming missions—NASA’s Solar Probe Plus and ESA’s Solar Orbiter. Both of these missions are designed to directly and repeatedly sample the near-Sun environments where interplanetary scattering and transport effects are significantly reduced, allowing us to discriminate between different ...
刚刚,NASA成功完成史诗级发射任务!这将是人类文明最接近太阳的一次 北京时间 8 月 12 日下午 3 点 31 分,具有历史意义的帕克太阳探测器(Parker Solar Probe)在卡纳维拉尔角空军基地 SLC-37B 发射位由德尔塔4 重型火箭发射升空。在经过了 43 分钟的飞行之后,虽然期间经历了第三级疑似失联的惊险时刻,还好是最终...
Parker Solar Probe passes along the edge of the corona in this illustration. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The mission will gather even more data on the corona in that time. It will even have the chance to plumb deep...