Parker Solar Probe headed toward the Sun, performing a Venus flyby.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe zoomed past Venus on Aug. 21, using the planet’s gravity to aim toward a record-setting series of flights around the Sun that start next month. The spacecraft was moving at a speed of 15 miles per second, and passed 2,487 miles above the Venusian surface as it curved around the planet. The mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland kept in contact with the spacecraft during the flyby through NASA’s Deep Space Network and determined that it was on course and functioning properly.

Except for an 8 minute period when Venus blocked communication between the spacecraft and Earth, the mission operations team were able to successfully monitor and track the probe’s progress. The flyby marks a significant step towards Parker Solar Probe's goal of exploring the Sun's atmosphere, and hopefully uncovering answers to some of its biggest mysteries.

Nick Pinkine, Parker Solar Probe mission operations manager from APL, recently announced that Parker Solar Probe remains on track to make its closest flybys yet of the Sun. He expressed his pride in the mission team, especially the mission operators who have worked hard over the past five years to ensure smooth operations of this incredible spacecraft with a history-making mission. Venus gravity assists are a crucial part of Parker Solar Probe's journey, as the planet reduces its orbital energy to allow it to travel closer to the Sun. Since 2018, it has been exploring the origins and unlocking the secrets of the solar wind and other properties of the near-Sun environment at their source.

The Parker mission’s sixth of seven planned Venus gravity assists served as an orbit maneuver to reduce the spacecraft’s speed by 5,932 miles per hour (9,547 kilometers per hour). This maneuver changed the spacecraft’s orbit and set Parker Solar Probe up for its next five close passes by the Sun, with the first occurring on Sept. 27. During each close approach, Parker Solar Probe will break its own records for speed and distance when it comes to within 4.5 million miles (7.3 million kilometers) from the solar surface at 394,800 miles per hour. Developed as part of NASA’s Living With a Star program, Parker Solar Probe was designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

Comments

In the triple-star system, KOI-5Ab is seen orbiting the primary star...

KOI-5Ab continues to be a topic of discussion for researchers, as koi-5Ab has been seen orbiting the primary Star, confirming it has also been announced. koi-5ab revolves around the primary star, it was thought to be a planet half the size of Saturn in a planetary system, and was the only other planet candidate to be detected by the KOI-5Ab mission. Kepler mission operations were initiated by NASA in 2009, by the end of spacecraft operations in 2018, the Kepler spacecraft had discovered 2,394 exoplanets, or planets orbiting stars beyond our sun, and about 2,366 exoplanets such There are also those, which are still to be confirmed. David Ciardi, chief scientist at NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute, says the KOI-5AB was abandoned, because it was complicated, and we had thousands of candidates, and we were learning something new every day from Kepler, so that the KOI Mostly forgot to -5. KOI-5Ab is part of the Triple Star system, where KOI-5 is a group of three st...

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will be closed.

NASA briefly informed that the Spitzer Space Telescope will be permanently discontinued on January 30, 2020. After about 16 years of discovering the universe in light energy. And by that time, the space shuttle has been working for more than 11 years beyond its prime mission, Spitzer examines the universe's various objects in infrared light. It was in 2003 through the rocket that the American Space Research Organization NASA entered the space and entered the orbit around the Earth. Spitzer rotates the sun on a path similar to that of the Earth but it runs a bit slower. Today it is about 158 million miles (254 million kilometers) away from our planet - more than 600 times the distance between Earth and Moon. The spacing of Spitzer's orbit curve means that when the spacecraft indicates its fixed antenna on the earth to download data or receive commands, its solar panels tend to lean away from the sun. During those periods, to operate the space shut...

SpaceX is launching its next dragon spacecraft.

SpaceX is preparing for its next mission, very soon Spacex will launch the Dragon Spacecraft with its Falcon 9 Rocket. SpaceX is the 18th commercial reproduction service mission, dragon spacecraft will be loaded with dozens of experiments made in space. Launch date: Sunday, July 21, 2019 at 7:35 pm International Space Station (ISS) us The National Laboratory SpaceX's dragon is giving a finalization to more than two dozen payloads for launch in a circular circular laboratory. Many of these payloads are aimed at improving human health on the earth, many of which are focused on drug development. In addition, a series of payloads from identified private sector partners will be launched on this mission. More than 40 student experiments and demonstrations have been included on the 18th Commercial Recepti Services Mission (CRS-18) of SpaceX. One part of ISS American National Laboratory's goal is to encourage and engage next generation scientists. ...

Infinity Cosmos

Search This Blog