Parker Solar Probe

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

No Icarus effect here

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...ew-discoveries

[Zuts]

Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

No Icarus effect here

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard...ew-discoveries

It's amazing to consider that on it's final orbit it will be travelling at over 700,000 km/h or nearly 200 km/sec.

It's closest approach will be a bit over 6,000,000 kilometers which is only 6 Solar diameters.

[Outcast (Carlton)]

It's pretty cool stuff eh...

I can't get my head around the whole engineering of something to survive all the challenges a vehicle (or any space vehicle for that matter) such as this...

Especially when you don't necessarily have absolute knowledge of all the variables that might be encountered.. amazing stuff

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Originally Posted by Outcast

It's pretty cool stuff eh...

I can't get my head around the whole engineering of something to survive all the challenges a vehicle (or any space vehicle for that matter) such as this...

Especially when you don't necessarily have absolute knowledge of all the variables that might be encountered.. amazing stuff

https://youtu.be/HBxcalnSzIk

https://youtu.be/pKK9ziDw_GA

[Outcast (Carlton)]

Originally Posted by Hans Tucker

https://youtu.be/HBxcalnSzIk

https://youtu.be/pKK9ziDw_GA

LOL...

[Hodur (David)]

Originally Posted by Zuts

It's amazing to consider that on it's final orbit it will be travelling at over 700,000 km/h or nearly 200 km/sec.

It's closest approach will be a bit over 6,000,000 kilometers which is only 6 Solar diameters.

Toasty