A united launch alliance delta iv heavy rocket launches nasa s parker solar probe to touch the sun sunday aug.
Parker solar probe delta iv heavy rocket launch.
The parker solar probe abbreviated psp.
Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting.
Liftoff of delta iv heavy with nasa s parker solar probe at 3 31 a m.
United launch alliance by jamie groh.
On board is nasa s parker solar probe a 1 5 million.
This launch uses a special three stage configuration of the united launch alliance delta iv heavy rocket to launch parker solar probe from the earth.
This configuration of the delta iv is created by taking three hydrogen fueled common booster cores each with an aerojet rocketdyne rs 68a main engine and strapping them together to provide over.
On its second try the united launch alliance rocket blasted off from cape canaveral at 3 31 a m.
Previously solar probe solar probe plus or solar probe is a nasa robotic spacecraft launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the sun.
A united launch alliance delta iv heavy rocket launches from cape canaveral air force station s launch complex 37 on sunday aug.
It will approach to within 9 86 solar radii 6 9 million km or 4 3 million miles from the center of the sun and by 2025 will travel at closest approach as fast as 690 000 km h.
12 2018 from launch complex 37 at cape canaveral air force station florida.
Sunday with nasa s 1 5 billion parker solar probe.