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Parker Solar Probe Gears Up for Seventh Solar Pass
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its next close approach to the Sun on Jan. 17, 2021, during its seventh science-gathering orbit around our star. At its closest approach to the Sun, called...
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Parker Solar Probe Marks Seventh Successful Swing around the Sun
There are lots of eyes on the Sun this week, as NASA’s Parker Solar Probe swings around our star on the seventh of its 24 scheduled orbits. None are closer than Parker Solar Probe, which passed just...
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Parker Solar Probe Primed for Fourth Venus Flyby
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe speeds past Venus on Feb. 20, 2021, using the planet’s gravity to shape its path for its next close approaches to the Sun. At just after 3:05 p.m. EST, moving about 54,000...
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Keeps Its Cool as it Speeds Closer to the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has started its eighth science-gathering solar encounter, putting it one-third of the way through its planned journey of 24 progressively closer loops around the Sun. Its...
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On May 2, 2021, at 3:00 a.m. EDT, mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, in Laurel, Maryland, received a “tone one” beacon from Parker Solar Probe, indicating...
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Course Correction Points Parker Solar Probe to Next Venus Flyby
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe executed a small maneuver on May 15, 2021, that corrected the trajectory errors from a gravity-assist flyby of Venus in February — and put the probe on newly optimized path...
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Parker Solar Probe Ushers in New Science on the Sun and Solar Wind
Scientists using data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe released a new collection of research papers in a special issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics on June 2, 2021. The issue, titled...
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Parker Solar Probe Speeding through Latest Science Encounter
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is speeding busily through its ninth science-gathering solar encounter, heading toward a close approach of the Sun on Aug. 9 that will take it to within about 6.5 million...
View ArticleSuccessful Ninth Solar Flyby for Parker Solar Probe
On Aug. 13, 2021, at 5:50 a.m. EDT, mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, in Laurel, Maryland, received a “tone one” beacon from Parker Solar Probe, indicating...
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Short Maneuver Targets Parker Solar Probe for Venus Flyby
On Sept. 29, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed a quick maneuver that positioned the spacecraft for a flyby of Venus next month. The maneuver, monitored from the mission operations center at the Johns...
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