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Previously: NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun

Let's try this again. The Parker Solar Probe is set for launch on Sunday, aboard a Delta IV Heavy:

Parker Solar Probe (previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus, or Solar Probe+, abbreviated PSP) is a planned NASA robotic spacecraft to probe the outer corona of the Sun. It will approach to within 8.86 solar radii (6.2 million kilometers or 3.85 million miles) from the "surface" (photosphere) of the Sun and will travel, at closest approach, as much as 700,000 km/h (430,000 mph).

It's the first NASA spacecraft named after a living person (Eugene Parker).

NASA Live:

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is set to launch tonight, Sunday, Aug. 12 at 3:31 a.m. Eastern. The launch window is 60 minutes. Watch NASA TV live beginning at 3 a.m. Parker Solar Probe will launch aboard a Delta IV-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will travel directly into the Sun's atmosphere about 4 million miles from our star's surface, facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.

NASA stream on YouTube. NASA TV page. NYT and Florida Today.

You may also want to check out the Perseids meteor shower this weekend.

1. "NASA's Parker Solar Probe Set to Launch Next Week on its Journey to the Sun" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/08/04/1754227
2. "Parker Solar Probe" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe
3. "Eugene Parker" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Parker
4. "NASA Live" - https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
5. "NASA stream on YouTube" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0
6. "NASA TV page" - https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
7. "NYT" - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/science/parker-solar-probe-launch.html
8. "Florida Today" - https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2018/08/10/live-watch-nasa-parker-solar-probe-launch-cape-canaveral-delta-iv-heavy-rocket/955104002/
9. "Perseids" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids
10. "this weekend" - http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-perseid-meteor-shower

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