Parker Solar Probe Trajectory

The cost of the project is us 1 5 billion.

Parker solar probe trajectory.

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. Nasa s parker solar probe is set to break a record tomorrow becoming the closest ever human made object to 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 size of the orbit will be decreased over nearly seven years using seven venus flybys.

This will be the probe s sixth flyby of the sun since it was launched in 2018. 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. Parker solar probe orbit. Solar probe plus will orbit the sun 24 times gradually walking in toward the sun with each pass.

Nasa s parker solar probe is set to break a record tomorrow becoming the closest ever human made object to the sun. The project was announced in the fiscal 2009 budget year. The probe will break its own previous record coming within 8 4 million miles.