Parker Solar Probe Program

NASA Parker Solar Probe is an active Living With a Star mission launched on August 12, 2018 to study the Sun and its corona, solar wind, and space-weather processes at their source. The spacecraft repeatedly passes within about 3.8 million miles of the solar surface; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory manages, operates, and built the spacecraft for NASA.

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Aliases: Parker Solar ProbeParkerParker Solar Probe mission
Domains: spaceflight
Name: Parker Solar Probe Program
Status: active
Types: explorationscienceresearchoperations

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Description: NASA Parker Solar Probe is an active Living With a Star mission launched on August 12, 2018 to study the Sun and its corona, solar wind, and space-weather processes at their source. The spacecraft repeatedly passes within about 3.8 million miles of the solar surface; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory manages, operates, and built the spacecraft for NASA.
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Start Date: 2018-08-12

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Official Urls: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/parker-solar-probe/https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/nasa-enters-the-solar-atmosphere-for-the-first-time-bringing-new-discoveries/