NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has broken distance and speed records.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has set a new pair of records. This satellite is officially a man-made object that is in the closest distance to the sun as well as an artificial object with the highest speed.
This satellite has succeeded and survived the 10th close encounter with the Sun. On November 21 at 4:25 a.m. EST (0825 GMT), the space probe was 5.3 million miles (8.5 million km) from the Sun’s surface and reached a speed of 586,864 km/h.
Reported from New Atlas, Sunday (28/11), the Parker Solar Probe was launched on August 12, 2018 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket. Nearest flight or flyby The most recent solar eclipse between November 16 and 26 marks the halfway point in the spacecraft’s seven-year mission to study the Sun. This satellite will eventually fly through the Sun’s corona.
The satellite has beaten the record holder, the Helios-2 spacecraft and has a maximum speed of 252,792 km/h. Its latest speed record beats previous records, as will future speed records that the probe at flyby next.
FLyby This 10th is one of 24 orbits getting closer to the Sun using Venus’ gravitational pull in a series of seven flyby. The satellite eventually came within 6.9 million/km of our star’s surface and reached speeds of over 690,000 km/h.
The aircraft is highly shielded from heat and radiation, but is still susceptible to damage and build up dangerous electrical charges from solar radiation. Its highly elliptical orbit allows it to recover between close encounters and to transmit recorded sensor data back to Earth about the Sun’s corona, magnetic field, and solar energy particle dynamics.
according to NASA and mission operators at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, the spacecraft is in good working order. The aircraft is operating normally, and will begin shipping its findings on December 24 to January 9, 2022.
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