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United Launch Alliance
Delta IV Heavy | Parker Solar Probe
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
Flying into the Sun’s atmosphere (or corona) for the first time. Coming closer to the Sun than any previous spacecraft, Parker Solar Probe will employ a combination of in situ measurements and imaging to achieve the mission’s primary scientific goal: to understand how the Sun’s corona is heated and how the solar wind is accelerated.
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Planned timings relative to the target. These steps do not indicate live progress.
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