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NASA's Parker Solar Probe phones home after surviving historic close sun flyby. It's alive!
Sharmila Kuthunur
Fri, December 27, 2024 at 9:53 AM EST
NASA's Parker Solar Probe is alive!
Two days after an historic Christmas Eve sun flyby that flew closer to the star than any spacecraft in history — taking the car-sized spacecraft nearly 10 times closer to the sun than Mercury — the Parker Solar Probe phoned home for the first time since its solar encounter. The spacesent sent a simple yet highly-anticipated beacon tone to Earth just before midnight late Thursday (Dec. 26).
Scientists on Earth were out of contact with the Parker Solar Probe since Dec. 20, when the spaceraft began its automated flyby of the sun, so the signal is a crucial confirmation that the spacecraft survived, and is in "good health and operating normally," NASA shared in an update early Friday (Dec. 27). ...
The spacecraft is programmed to send home a more detailed status update on New Year's Day, Jan. 1. It's only then that scientists will know whether the spacecraft indeed collected the expected observations of the sun from the flyby ... The probe should transmit the bulk of the images and science data in late January, when it will have swung away to a safe distance from the sun. ...
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe phones home after surviving historic close sun flyby. It's alive!
A NASA spacecraft has survived a historic close fly of the sun. The mission team received a beacon tone from the Parker Solar Probe, signaling it was still functioning after the record approach.www.yahoo.com
