NASA's Parker Solar Probe: ULA Delta IV Heavy Rocket Mission

Parker Solar Probe Launch Targeted for Aug. 11
Go Delta! Go Parker Solar Probe!

With three common booster cores, the Heavy is the largest in the Delta IV fleet and is a proven U.S. heavy lifter, delivering high-priority missions for the U.S. Air Force, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and NASA. The Delta IV Heavy also launched NASA’s Orion spacecraft on its historic Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) in 2014.

July 24, 2018: NASA and its mission partners are targeting Aug. 11 for the launch of the Parker Solar Probe mission to the Sun. The 45-minute launch window will open at 3:48 a.m. EDT. During final inspections following the encapsulation of the spacecraft, a small strip of foam was found inside the fairing and additional time is needed for inspection.

The spacecraft will launch on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The spacecraft aims to unravel 60 years' worth of mysteries surrounding the Sun’s corona. NASA's Parker Solar Probe and its United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle prepare for an unprecedented mission to "kiss the Sun."

Launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Parker Solar Probe will swoop to within 4 million miles of the sun's surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it. It will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth.

Learn about the historic Parker Solar Probe mission: https://go.nasa.gov/2ubAwFS

• Rocket: Delta IV Heavy
• Mission: Parker Solar Probe
• Launch Date: Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018
• Launch Broadcast: Details to come
• Launch Location: Space Launch Complex-37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida

Mission Information:
Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first mission to the sun. After launch, it will orbit directly through the solar atmosphere–the corona–closer to the surface than any human-made object has ever gone. While facing brutal heat and radiation, the mission will reveal fundamental science behind what drives the solar wind, the constant outpouring of material from the sun that shapes planetary atmospheres and affects space weather near Earth.

Parker Solar Probe is part of NASA’s Living With a Star Program to explore aspects of the connected sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society.

Launch Notes: Due to the extremely high energy required for this mission, the Delta IV Heavy’s capability will be augmented by a powerful third stage provided by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems.

Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)/NASA
Release Date: July 24, 2018
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The Solar System from Near The Sun | NASA's Parker Solar Probe

The Solar System from Near The Sun | NASA's Parker Solar Probe

If you watch long enough, a comet will appear. Before then, you will see our Solar System from inside the orbit of Mercury as recorded by NASA's Parker Solar Probe looping around the Sun. The video captures coronal streamers into the solar wind, a small Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), and planets including, in order of appearance, Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter. Between the emergence of Earth and Mars, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS appears with a distinctive tail. The continuous fleeting streaks are high energy particles from the Sun impacting Parker's sideways looking camera. 

This time-lapse video was taken last year during Encounter 21, Parker's 21st close approach to the Sun. Studying data and images from Parker are delivering a better understanding of the dynamic Sun's effects on Earth's space weather as well as humanity's power grids, spacecraft, and space-faring astronauts.

On a mission to “touch the Sun,” NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona—the Sun’s upper atmosphere—in 2021. With every orbit bringing it closer, the probe faces brutal heat and radiation to provide humanity with unprecedented observations, visiting the only star we can study up close.

Learn more about the Parker Solar Probe: 
https://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/

Read more about its close Sun approach: 

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-history-with-closest-pass-to-sun/

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/parker-solar-probe/

Video Credit:  NASA, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), NRL, Parker Solar Probe; h/t: Richard Petarius III;

Duration: 1 minute, 19 seconds
Release Date: March 31, 2025

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Dr. Eugene Parker Watches NASA Parker Solar Probe Launch

First NASA Mission Named for a Living Person

In 1958, Dr. Parker published the first paper theorizing the solar wind, the Sun's constant outflow of material. Now, the Parker Solar Probe is on its way to the Sun to make novel measurements of the solar wind and help us uncover its secrets. 

Image: Dr. Eugene Parker, a pioneer in heliophysics at the University of Chicago, watches the launch of NASA's Parker Solar Probe. This is the first agency mission named for a living person. The liftoff took place at 3:31 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. The spacecraft was built by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.

Learn more about NASA's Parker Solar Probe:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe

Image Credit: NASA/Glenn Benson
Release Date: August 12, 2018

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Completes 14th Close Encounter with The Sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Completes 14th Close Encounter with The Sun

On Dec. 6, 2022, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe began the 14th of 24 planned close approaches to the Sun. The closest approach—called perihelion— occurred on Dec. 11, 2022, at 8:16 a.m. EST, during which the spacecraft traveled at 364,639 miles per hour—fast enough to fly from New York to Tokyo in just over a minute. 

During the encounter, which ends Dec. 16, 2022, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter, NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A), and radar telescopes on Earth will view the Sun from the same angle as Parker at the beginning of the encounter. They will slowly progress to an approximately 90-degree angle from Parker on the inbound side of the encounter. 

The European Space Agency’s BepiColombo mission will start out viewing the Sun from the same angle as Parker and progress to observing the Sun from an approximately 90-degree angle from Parker on the outbound side of the encounter. This orientation could provide an opportunity to observe a solar event from all sides. 

Parker Solar Probe Mission Information:

Learn more: https://jhuapl.link/psp-wzk

Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first mission to the sun. After launch, it will orbit directly through the solar atmosphere–the corona–closer to the surface than any human-made object has ever gone. While facing brutal heat and radiation, the mission will reveal fundamental science behind what drives the solar wind, the constant outpouring of material from the sun that shapes planetary atmospheres and affects space weather near Earth.

Parker Solar Probe is part of NASA’s Living With a Star Program to explore aspects of the connected sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society.

Video Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL)

Duration: 1 minute, 15 seconds

Release Date: Dec. 15, 2022

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Listen to The Sun! Transforming Heliophysics Data into Sound | NASA

Listen to The Sun! Transforming Heliophysics Data into Sound | NASA

Explore how data about the Sun from NASA's Parker Solar Probe, Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) and Wind spacecraft has been transformed into sound with NASA’s Coordinated Data Analysis Web (CDAWeb). Observe how audification can benefit heliophysics data analysis and uncover spectral features that the eyes overlook.

Heliophysics (from the prefix "helio", from Attic Greek hḗlios, meaning Sun, and the noun "physics": the science of matter and energy and their interactions) is the physics of the Sun and its connection with the Solar System. NASA defines heliophysics as "(1) the comprehensive new term for the science of the Sun—Solar System Connection, (2) the exploration, discovery, and understanding of Earth's space environment, and (3) the system science that unites all of the linked phenomena in the region of the cosmos influenced by a star like our Sun."

Sponsored by NASA's Heliophysics Digital Resource Library (HDRL) and Heliophysics Audified: Resonances in Plasmas (HARP) citizen science. 

For more information about data audification, visit:  

NASA’s CDAWeb: https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/audification_readme.html

HARP Citizen Science: https://listen.spacescience.org/

00:12 Parker Solar Probe Encounters a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)

ApJ Publication: Near-Sun In Situ and Remote-sensing Observations of a Coronal Mass Ejection and its Effect on the Heliospheric Current Sheet, O.M. Romeo et al., 2023

Data Audification: Robert Alexander

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00:57 Ultra-Low Frequency Waves in Earth's Magnetosphere

 Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences Publication: Listening to the Magnetosphere: How Best to Make ULF Waves Audible, M.O. Archer et al., 2022

Data Sonification: The HARP Citizen Science Project

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01:24 Binaural Audification of MMS Search Coil Magnetometer Data

International Conference on Auditory Display 2024: Auralization of Magnetic Multiscale Satellite Data: Toward Integrated Audification in Space Science

Authors:
Kristina Collins
Robert L. Alexander 
Jaye Verniero 
Robert M. Candey 
Video Production:
Robert L. Alexander 
Kristina Collins 

MMS Visualization: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio 

Visualizer: Tom Bridgman (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)

Scientist: Tai Phan (University of California at Berkeley) 

Producer: Joy Ng (USRA)

Writer: Mara Johnson-Groh (Wyle Information Systems) 

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02:40 Parker Solar Probe Crossing the Heliospheric Current Sheet (HCS)

Apj Publication: Parker Solar Probe Observations of Proton Beams Simultaneous with Ion-scale Waves,

J.L. Verniero et al., 2020 

Verniero et al. 2025 in prep 

Data Audification & Visualization: Robert Alexander 

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04:07 Parker Solar Probe Captures a CME Interacting With the HCS

 Publications: 

Near-Sun In Situ and Remote-sensing Observations of a Coronal Mass Ejection and its Effect on the Heliospheric Current Sheet, O.M. Romeo et al., 2023

Parker Solar Probe Observations of Solar Wind Energetic Proton Beams Produced by Magnetic Reconnection in the Near-Sun Heliospheric Current Sheet, T.D. Phan et al., 2022 

Strong Perpendicular Velocity-space Diffusion in Proton Beams Observed by Parker Solar Probe,

J.L. Verniero et al., 2022

Verniero et al. 2025 in prep 

Data Audification: Robert Alexander 

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04:43 Giant Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) Waves at the Boundary Layer of the Mother’s Day CME

GRL Publication: The Giant Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) Waves at the Boundary Layer of the Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) Responsible for the Largest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years, Katariina Nykyri, 2024 

Data Audification: Robert Alexander 

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05:12 The Wind Spacecraft Encounters a Proton Cyclotron Wavestorm

ApJ Publication: A Proton-Cyclotron Wave Storm Generated by Unstable Proton Distribution Functions in the Solar Wind, R.T. Wicks, R.L. Alexander et al., 2016

Data Audification & Visualization: Robert Alexander 

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Video production: Robert Alexander 

Transition Audio:

Dawn Chorus Observed by the MMS Satellite Filtered OMNI Solar Wind Plasma Speed Measurements

Audified data from NASA’s CDAWeb

Video Credit: NASA
Duration: 5 minutes, 44 seconds
Release Date: Jan. 21, 2025

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The Team That "Touched the Sun" | NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission | JHUAPL

The Team That "Touched the Sun" | NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission | JHUAPL

"Decades of dedication. Years of innovation. One historic moment." The Parker Solar Probe’s record-breaking closest approach to the Sun on December 24, 2024, was more than just a milestone for the team who built the spacecraft. "It was the culmination of a bold vision, relentless ingenuity and dedication to advancing humanity’s understanding of our closest star."

Hear from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) team that dared to "touch the Sun" as they reflect on the work that made the mission possible and enabled groundbreaking discoveries that will advance solar science. 

Learn more about the Parker Solar Probe: https://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/

Read more about its close Sun approach: 

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-history-with-closest-pass-to-sun/

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/parker-solar-probe/

Video Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL)

Duration: 3 minutes, 39 seconds
Release Date: Jan. 2, 2025

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New Views of Venus’ Surface | NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

New Views of Venus’ Surface | NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. However, in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum—the type of light that the human eye can see—and extending into the near-infrared.

The images, combined into a video, reveal a faint glow from the surface that shows distinctive features like continental regions, plains, and plateaus. A luminescent halo of oxygen in the atmosphere can also be seen surrounding the planet.

More information: 

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/sun/parker-solar-probe-captures-its-first-images-of-venus-surface-in-visible-light-confirmed

Link to paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL096302

Mission Information:

Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first mission to the sun. After launch, it will orbit directly through the solar atmosphere–the corona–closer to the surface than any human-made object has ever gone. While facing brutal heat and radiation, the mission will reveal fundamental science behind what drives the solar wind, the constant outpouring of material from the sun that shapes planetary atmospheres and affects space weather near Earth.

Parker Solar Probe is part of NASA’s Living With a Star Program to explore aspects of the connected sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Scientists:

Brian Wood (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

Giada Arney (NASA/GSFC)

Brendan Gallagher (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

Phillip Hess (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)

Angelos Vourlidas (Johns Hopkins University/APL)

Producer: Joy Ng (KBRwyle)

Writer: Mara Johnson-Groh (Wyle Information Systems)

Animator: Steve Gribben (Johns Hopkins APL)

Music credits: “Tides” and “Subsurface” by Ben Niblett [PRS] and Jon Cotton [PRS] from Universal Production Music

Duration: 3 minutes, 24 seconds

Release Date: February 9, 2022

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Observes Sun Alongside Dozens of Observatories | JHUAPL

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Observes Sun Alongside Dozens of Observatories

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 15th close approach to the Sun on March 17, coming within 5.3 million miles of the scorching solar surface. The geometry of Parker’s latest orbit also placed it in direct view of Earth and several other Sun-observing spacecraft during its close encounter, providing unique scientific opportunities for collaborative observations from the ground and space. 

Parker Solar Probe Mission Information:

https://jhuapl.link/psp-wzk

Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first mission to the sun. It orbits directly through the solar atmosphere–the corona–closer to the surface than any human-made object has ever gone. While facing brutal heat and radiation, the mission will reveal fundamental science behind what drives the solar wind, the constant outpouring of material from the sun that shapes planetary atmospheres and affects space weather near Earth.

Parker Solar Probe is part of NASA’s Living With a Star Program to explore aspects of the connected sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society.

Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)/Mike Yakovlev

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: March 20, 2023

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe: Our Closest Encounter with The Sun

NASA's Parker Solar Probe: Our Closest Encounter with The Sun

Controllers have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the solar atmosphere at 430,000 miles per hour—faster than any human-made object has ever moved. A beacon tone received in the late evening hours of Dec. 26 confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally.

This pass, the first of more to come at this distance, allows the spacecraft to conduct unrivaled scientific measurements with the potential to change our understanding of the Sun.

Read more: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-history-with-closest-pass-to-sun/

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/parker-solar-probe/

Video Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Duration: 6 minutes
Release Date: Dec. 27, 2024

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Closest Images Ever Taken of The Sun’s Atmosphere | NASA Parker Solar Probe

Closest Images Ever Taken of The Sun’s Atmosphere | NASA Parker Solar Probe

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun in December 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly released images—taken closer to the Sun than we have ever been before—are helping scientists better understand the Sun’s influence across the solar system, including events that can affect Earth.

Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-snaps-closest-ever-images-to-sun/

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Mission
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/parker-solar-probe/

Video Credit: NASA
Producer: Joy Ng (eMITS)
Scientist: Nour Rawafi (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab)
Videographer: John Philyaw (eMITS), Lacey Young (eMITS)
Duration: 3 minutes

Release Date: July 10, 2025

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe: Prepping for Launch

Launch targeted for August 11, 2018

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has cleared the final procedures in the clean room before its move to the launch pad, where it will be integrated onto its launch vehicle, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy. This is an historic mission that will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun, where changing conditions can propagate out into the solar system, affecting Earth and other worlds. Parker Solar Probe will travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, closer to the surface than any spacecraft before it, facing brutal heat and radiation conditions—and ultimately providing humanity with the closest-ever observations of a star.

Seen here inside one half of its 62.7-foot tall fairing, the Parker Solar Probe was encapsulated on July 16, 2018, in preparation for the move from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, to Space Launch Complex 37 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where it will be integrated onto its launch vehicle for its launch that is targeted for August 11, 2018.

Learn about the historic Parker Solar Probe mission: https://go.nasa.gov/2ubAwFS

Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
Image Date: July 16, 2018
Release Date: July 31, 2018

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe: Rocket Prep

Current Launch Window: Aug. 11-Aug. 23rd, 2018

In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Monday, July 16, 2018, NASA's Parker Solar Probe is prepared for encapsulation in its payload fairing. The spacecraft is mated to its third stage, built and tested by Northrup Grumman in Chandler, Arizona. The Parker Solar Probe will launch on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.

Learn about the historic Parker Solar Probe mission: https://go.nasa.gov/2ubAwFS

Image Credit: NASA/Leif Heimbold
Release Date: July 16, 2018

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Prelaunch

Is your alarm set? A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket will launch the Parker Solar Probe for NASA on Aug. 11. The launch window opens at 3:33am ET. Broadcast begins at 3am ET. Weather is currently 70% favorable for launch. Watch NASA TV: nasa.gov/nasatv
Image: The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket payload fairing is seen with the NASA and Parker Solar Probe emblems, Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018 at Launch Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe will travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, closer to the surface than any spacecraft before it.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Image Date: August 8, 2018

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Prelaunch

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket that will launch NASA's Parker Solar Probe on a mission to study the Sun is seen as the Mobile Service Tower gantry at Space Launch Complex 37 rolls back on Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Parker Solar Probe will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.

Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Image Date: August 10, 2018

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Parker Solar Probe Liftoff | NASA

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Release Date: August 12, 2018

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Parker Solar Probe Launch | NASA

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Release Date: August 12, 2018

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Prelaunch

The Mobile Service Tower is rolled back to reveal the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe onboard, Friday, Aug. 10, 2018, Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Image Date: August 10, 2018

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Parker Solar Probe Liftoff | NASA

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Release Date: August 12, 2018

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Liftoff of NASA's Parker Solar Probe

Aug. 12, 2018: A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off at 3:31 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying NASA's Parker Solar Probe on a mission to the Sun. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection.

Credit: NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Duration: 4 minutes, 18 seconds
Release Date: August 12, 2018

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe Prelaunch

The Mobile Service Tower rolls back from the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission in preparation for launch on Aug. 12 from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

Image Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)
Image Date: August 11, 2018
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