NASA: Heat shield installed on spacecraft heading to sun

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Channel: Staten Island Advance · 2018 · Science & Technology

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Parker Solar Probe’s heat shield, called the Thermal Protection System, is lifted and realigned with the spacecraft’s truss as engineers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab prepare to install the eight-foot-diameter heat shield on June 27, 2018. (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman)

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