23-12-2024, 12:03 PM
At that moment, if the sun and Earth were at opposite ends of a football field, Parker "would be on the four-yard line," said NASA's Joe Westlake.
Mission managers won't know how Parker fared until days after the flyby since the spacecraft will be out of communication range.
Parker planned to get more than seven times closer to the sun than previous spacecraft, hitting 690,000km/hr closest approach. It's the fastest spacecraft ever built outfitted with a heat shield to withstand scorching temperatures up to 1371 degrees...
https://youtu.be/PnVbT-tpot8?si=Hn9zoBTHUex-i4D5
Mission managers won't know how Parker fared until days after the flyby since the spacecraft will be out of communication range.
Parker planned to get more than seven times closer to the sun than previous spacecraft, hitting 690,000km/hr closest approach. It's the fastest spacecraft ever built outfitted with a heat shield to withstand scorching temperatures up to 1371 degrees...

https://youtu.be/PnVbT-tpot8?si=Hn9zoBTHUex-i4D5