Parker Solar Probe Trajectory

This will be the probe s sixth flyby of the sun since it was launched in 2018.

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. 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 cost of the project is us 1 5 billion. The probe will break its own previous record coming within 8 4 million miles.

Solar probe plus will orbit the sun 24 times gradually walking in toward the sun with each pass. The size of the orbit will be decreased over nearly seven years using seven venus flybys. 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 orbit.

Solar probe plus will be placed into an elliptical orbit around the sun. Johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory designed and built the spacecraft. Nasa s parker solar probe is set to break a record tomorrow becoming the closest ever human made object to the sun.