Parker Solar Probe (previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus, or Solar Probe+, abbreviated PSP) is a NASA robotic spacecraft route to probe the outer corona of the Sun. It will approach to within 8.86 solar radii (6.2 million kilometers) from the photosphere of the Sun and will travel, at closest approach, as fast as 700,000 km/h.
Just over a month into its seven-year mission to touch the sun, NASA's Parker solar Probe has beamed back the first-light data from each of its four instrument suites, the US space agency said.
On September 9, Wide-field Image for Soler Probe's (WISPR) -- the only image on the probe-door was opened, allowing the instrument to take the first image during its journey to the sun.
WISPR with both its inner and outer telescope snapped a blue-toned, two-panel image of space with stars visible throughout.
while the Sun is not visible in the image, it showed Jupiter.
Launched on August 12, Parker Solar Probe, NASA's historic small car-sized probe will journey steadily closed to the Sun, until it makes its closed approach at 3.8 million miles.
The Parker Soler Probe's first close approach to the Sun will be in November.
Launch occurred on August 12, 2018, at 3:31 a.m. EDT, 7:31 a.m. GMT. The spacecraft is operating nominally, and during its first week in space, it deployed its high-gain antenna, magnetometer boom, and its electric field antennas. The spacecraft performed its first scheduled trajectory correction on 20 August 2018, while it was 5.5 million miles from Earth, and traveling at 63,569 km/h (39,500 mph).
Instrument testing will begin in early September, and its first science observations will be transmitted in December 2018.
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