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-- -- The Mission Overview Science Objectives Launch Journey to the Sun Where is PSP? Timeline Team The Sun Overview Sun-Earth Connections The Corona Spacecraft Overview Extreme Environment Instruments News Center News Archive Media Contacts Resources Events Subscribe to eNews Multimedia Images Videos Animations NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio Participate Learn Museums & More Toolkit Community Science Gateway -- 1969-31-12EST19:00:00 1 1970-01-01UTC00:00:00 -- Latest News | June 16, 2020 Teams Up With Observatories Around Solar System for 4th Solar Encounter Upcoming Events | March 23-27, 2020 Parker One The first annual conference will be held from March 23 to 27, 2020 in Laurel, Maryland at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. The conference is open to the entire heliophysics community. Learn more at http://parkerseries.jhuapl.edu/ » -- Loading Spacecraft Status Current Mission: Orbit 5 Your browser does not support the video tag. View mission timeline -- psp202006_0648.svg Mission Trajectory and Current Position Distance from Sun Future Orbit Past Orbit 250 200 150 100 50 0 Distance from Sun's Surface (R S ) 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 Days from Launch Mercury Venus Earth Solar Probe Parker Heliocentric Velocity (km/s): 37.38 Distance from Sun Center (AU): 0.561 Distance from Sun's Surface (R S ): 119.5 Distance from Earth (AU): 0.535 Round-Trip Light Time (hh:mm:ss): 00:08:54 27 Jun 2020 23:00:00 UTC Countdown to next milestone Venus Flyby 3 : July 11, 2020, 03:23 UTC Current Records Set By Loading What is ? A scientific mission to unlock the mysteries of the Sun's corona and solar wind A spacecraft that uses breakthrough technology and autonomy to endure heat and radiation like no other mission A unique solar observatory that will orbit within 4 million miles of our star's surface to directly study the formation of the solar wind The first mission named for a living scientist: Dr. Eugene Parker , who theorized the existence of the solar wind Latest PSP News | All News June 9, 2020 Signals Successful Fifth Encounter of the Sun May 12, 2020 Begins Longest Science Observation Campaign April 15, 2020 Data from 's Third Orbit Now Available to the Public Tweets by NASASun -- NASASun PSP - Curated tweets by alyregiec -- Tweets by @NASASun Latest PSP Media | All Images All Videos All Animations First Perihelion: Into the Unknown - Download original Venus Flyby 1 Download original Venus Flyby 1 (closeup) Download original : The Journey Begins Download original Timelapse of Transport to Launch Pad and Integration onto Delta IV Heavy Download original Launch Download original Solar 60: Post-Launch with Project Scientist Nicky Fox Download original Solar 60: Moves to Launch Pad, Attaches to Launch Vehicle Download original Solar 60: Encapsulation into Fairing Download original Timelapse: Light Half Fairing Encapsulation Download original Approaching the Sun Download original Leaving Earth Download original Solar 60: Mated to Third Stage Download original Timelapse of Removal of Stands and Move to Encapsulation Bay Download original Solar 60: Propellant Loading onto Download original Solar 60: Installation of the Thermal Protection System Download original Timelapse: Lift of to third stage rocket Download original Solar 60: Component Alignments on Download original Solar 60: The Wide-field Imager for Solar PRobe (WISPR) Instrument Download original Solar 60: The Solar Array Cooling System Download original Previous Next © 2019 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC. All rights reserved. Privacy Notice/Legal Disclaimer 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Maryland 20723 240-228-5000 (Washington, DC, area) • 443-778-5000 (Baltimore area)...