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NASA's Parker Probe Set to Pass Venus Before Record-Breaking Sun Orbit
The Parker Solar Probe is gearing up for a final swing past Venus on November 6, which will nudge it into an extremely tight ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close encounter with sun
NASA did this by sending the Parker probe close to Venus many times. Each Venus flyby adjusted the probe’s orbit in a way ...
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Eugene Parker’s Journey to the Sun
Comet tails were the first ... The launch window for the Parker Solar Probe opens on July 31 and lasts 20 days. During this time, Earth and Venus are aligned, a positioning crucial for the ...
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Why the Parker Solar Probe is trying to ‘touch’ the sun
On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar ... distance. The probe’s final mission profile was more direct: to use the combined gravitational forces of the earth and Venus to slowly spiral ...
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NASA's daredevil solar spacecraft survives 2nd close flyby of our sun
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its second close flyby of the sun, the space agency announced earlier this week. The car-sized spacecraft swooped within 3.8 million miles (6.1 ...
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Before Launching Probes to Venus, NASA Had to Figure Out Exactly Where It Was
“JPL was about to launch space probes toward Venus, and for that purpose it would be very useful to know where Venus actually was,” Golomb told me in a 2016 interview, shortly before his deat ...