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    The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 to make observations of the...
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    Enrico Fermi Institute. Parker was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1967. In 2017, NASA named its Parker Solar Probe in his honor, the first...
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    focusing cone Interplanetary medium Magnetic sail Parker Solar Probe Plasmasphere Solar cycle Solar sail Solar Wind Composition Experiment STEREO McComas, D...
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    organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets. Flybys (such as gravity assists) that...
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  • Parker Solar Probe (PSP), and the planned HelioSwarm, earning several awards from NASA. The Solar Probe Cup he helped build for the Parker Probe's SWEAP...
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    CNSA Parker Solar Probe Mission: observation of solar wind, magnetic fields, and coronal energy flow. Launched: 12 August 2018 Destination: low solar orbit...
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  • science and technology. 1 January – Detailed telemetry data from the Parker Solar Probe is received, following its passage through the Sun's corona. 2 January...
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    The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) is an instrument on the Parker Solar Probe, designed for an unmanned mission to the Sun's outer corona...
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    the lead scientist for the Parker Solar Probe, and served as the Science and Operations Coordinator for the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science...
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    Parker Solar Probe The Parker Solar Probe, launched by NASA in 2018, has seven planned Venus gravity assists. Each gravity assist brings the Parker Solar...
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    China launched the Tianwen-2 (ZhengHe) asteroid sample-return and comet probe in May. On 15 January, Blue Ghost Mission 1 by Firefly Aerospace and Hakuto-R...
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    WISPR (category Parker Solar Probe)
    The Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) is an imaging instrument of the Parker Solar Probe mission to the Sun, launched in August 2018. Imaging targets...
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  • Solar probe can refer to: the NASA Solar Probe mission (now named "Parker Solar Probe") List of Solar System probes, which includes many solar probes...
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    Stellar corona (redirect from Solar corona)
    S2CID 205232074. "Parker Solar Probe: The Mission". parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-08-22. "Parker Solar Probe Completes Third...
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    FIELDS (category Parker Solar Probe)
    FIELDS is a science instrument on the Parker Solar Probe (PSP), designed to measure magnetic fields in the solar corona during its mission to study the...
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    (28 July 2022). "'Voyager on steroids.' Mission would probe mysterious region beyond our Solar System". Science. doi:10.1126/science.ade1070. Retrieved...
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    Sun (redirect from Solar diameter)
    Wit, Thierry; Zank, G. P. (14 December 2021). "Parker Solar Probe Enters the Magnetically Dominated Solar Corona". Physical Review Letters. 127 (25): 255101...
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    The Solar Orbiter (SolO) is a Sun-observing probe developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)...
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  • released into space. The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) was launched in 2018 with the mission of making detailed observations of the outer solar corona. It has made...
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    ISBN 978-0-07-145545-9. OCLC 61684277. "Parker Solar Probe Becomes Fastest-Ever Spacecraft – Parker Solar Probe". blogs.nasa.gov. 29 October 2018. Archived...
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    over the Sun's poles. NASA's Parker Solar Probe and NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter both observed switchbacks. Magnetic (or solar) switchback is a rapid polarity...
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    Parker Solar Probe Captures Surprising Images of Venus Nightside". Sky & Telescope. Retrieved 2025-03-14. "Nightside observations by the Parker Solar...
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    Program. Major spacecraft include the Van Allen Probes, Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the Parker Solar Probe. Living With a Star was proposed in 2000 and...
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    Uranus Orbiter and Probe is an orbiter mission concept to study Uranus and its moons. The orbiter would also deploy an atmospheric probe to characterize...
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    An interstellar probe is a space probe that has left—or is expected to leave—the Solar System and enter interstellar space, which is typically defined...
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  • Alfvén surface (category Solar phenomena)
    Alfvén critical surface, Alfvén point, or Alfvén radius. In 2018, the Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft that crossed Alfvén surface of the Sun...
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    Venus! Parker Solar Probe Makes Second Planetary Flyby". Space.com. Dec 26, 2019. Bartels, Meghan (May 18, 2021). "Venus views from NASA sun probe show...
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    Heavy with an additional Star 48BV third stage was used to launch the Parker Solar Probe into an elliptical heliocentric orbit. In May 2023, the final Delta...
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  • Shield Installed on NASA's Parker Solar Probe - NASA". 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2024-04-30. Grossi, Stefano. "Parker Solar Probe Heat Shield". Ultramet. Retrieved...
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  • Zodiacal light (category Solar System)
    Public Radio show Fresh Air Frazier, Sarah (2021-04-16). "NASA's Parker Solar Probe Sees Venus Orbital Dust Ring". NASA. Retrieved 2023-01-21. Wikimedia...
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