NASA's historic mission to fly closer than ever to the Sun

547 views · Published 12 July 2018 · 1:18 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: CGTN · 2018 · News & Politics

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe spacecraft is fully integrated and is scheduled to take off in August 2018. Engineers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab added a heat shield to the probe on June 27 to protect its instruments from the searing heat of the sun.

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