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NASA "Solar Probe Plus" Announcement at 11 AM EDT

posted by takyon on Wednesday May 31 2017, @02:20PM   
from the flying-money-into-the-sun dept.

NASA will discuss its plans for the Solar Probe Plus soon (11 AM EDT, 3 PM UTC):

NASA will make an announcement about the agency's first mission to fly directly into our sun's atmosphere during an event at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, May 31, from the University of Chicago's William Eckhardt Research Center Auditorium. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Both the Solar Probe Plus and ESA's Solar Orbiter are planned to launch in 2018.

Update: They renamed Solar Probe Plus to "Parker Solar Probe" after Eugene Parker, a living scientist who developed the theory of solar wind.

• Missing from the summary Missing from the summary (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @10:55PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 31 2017, @10:55PM (#518550)

  The last item in
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe#Trajectory_and_mission [wikipedia.org]
  notes[1]

  As the probe passes around the Sun, it will achieve a velocity of up to 200 km/s (120 mi/s) making it by any measure, the fastest manmade object ever, almost three times faster than the current record holder, Helios 2.

  [1] Submitter's link also redirects.

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• Re:Missing from the summary (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 31 2017, @11:50PM

  by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Wednesday May 31 2017, @11:50PM (#518584) Journal

  [1] Submitter's link also redirects.

  I wrote the summary before they officially changed the name!

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