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Parker Solar Probe

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-son50-00100

Date

2016-08-04

The Solar Probe Plus spacecraft with solar panels folded into the shadows of its protective shield, gathers data on its approach to the Sun.
NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, renamed Parker Solar Probe, is slated to launch no later than 2018.