Here's what one of the @PSP_FIELDS magnetometers saw: The large spacecraft-generated field rapidly drops off as the boom deploys and carries the magnetometer away from the spacecraft body–that means we […]
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The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft will launch in summer 2018 on a ULA Delta IV Heavy rocket. Two of the three first stage booster cores were delivered to the […]
On May 31, NASA officially renamed the Solar Probe mission to the Parker Solar Probe, in honor of Eugene Parker, who predicted the existence of the solar wind in a […]
