Parker Solar Probe Trajectory

Parker solar probe orbit.

Parker solar probe trajectory.

The parker solar probe is a nasa robotic spacecraft launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the sun. Solar probe plus will be placed into an elliptical orbit around the sun. The project was announced in the fiscal 2009 budget year. It will approach to within 9 86 solar radii from the center of the sun and by 2025 will travel at closest approach as fast as 690 000 km h or 0 064 the speed of light.

This will be the probe s sixth flyby of the sun since it was launched in 2018. Nasa s parker solar probe is set to break a record tomorrow becoming the closest ever human made object to the sun. Nasa s parker solar probe is set to break a record tomorrow becoming the closest ever human made object to the sun. The probe will break its own previous record coming within 8 4 million miles of the sun s surface and traveling at 289 927 miles per hour.

Parker solar probe will use seven venus flybys over nearly seven years to gradually shrink its orbit around the sun coming as close as 3 83 million miles and 6 16 million kilometers to the sun well within the orbit of mercury and about seven times closer than any spacecraft has come before. The probe will break its own previous record coming within 8 4 million miles. Johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory designed and built the spacecraft.