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Parker Solar Probe, Take the Solar Plunge
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post Aug 13 2018, 11:02 AM
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I believe New Horizons took about 9 hours, from launch, to cross the Moon's orbit, giving it the fastest Earth departure ever.
I suspect Parker may have exceeded that, but can't find the relevant facts -- any ideas?

I was looking for the trajectory views using NASA's Solar System Simulator, seen here for New Horizons :

Where is New Horizons?

But the same thing does not (yet) seem to be up for Parker.
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post Aug 13 2018, 12:19 PM
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According to Jonathan McDowell, it was a lot faster (see this tweet: https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1028699688889933824 .)

And there's this: http://orbitsimulator.com/gravitySimulator...PassesMoon.html

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post Aug 20 2018, 06:35 PM
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A very detailed update on Parker:

Early milestones accomplished
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post Sep 19 2018, 07:11 PM
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first images from the wide field camera:
Illuminating First Light Data from Parker Solar Probe
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post Sep 20 2018, 04:26 AM
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Bit surprised at the quality of these since I thought all the cams were designed for far higher light levels. Pleasantly so, though. smile.gif


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post Sep 20 2018, 02:56 PM
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WISPR looks for plasma coming off the Sun, so it's not too surprising it's a decent dark-sky camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ngdm6GTbc

Maybe it'll get really lucky and find some Vulcan asteroids! Looks like STEREO searches have removed chances of anything larger than ~6km.


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post Sep 20 2018, 03:35 PM
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QUOTE (hendric @ Sep 20 2018, 09:56 AM) *
Maybe it'll get really lucky and find some Vulcan asteroids! Looks like STEREO searches have removed chances of anything larger than ~6km.

Remember that if one considers the length of the mission, we might get a sungrazer comet near perihelion. The unique angle of observation (and distance) would provide valuable science when combined with observations at 1 AU.
Though there's no dust sensor onboard, so no direct way to see if it passes through any of their debris streams?
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post Sep 25 2018, 02:42 PM
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Maybe dust impacts could be detected via attitude control.


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post Oct 3 2018, 11:02 PM
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Venus Flyby Complete!
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post Oct 4 2018, 03:18 AM
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That's crazy fast. What was the next quickest launch to planetary flyby?
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post Oct 4 2018, 04:38 AM
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There's discussion of that upthread.


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post Oct 4 2018, 04:47 AM
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Probably one of the previous Venus missions, I think. No other planet gets that close to Earth, and I think we discussed it up thread!
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post Oct 25 2018, 05:42 AM
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Parker Solar Probe Looks Back at Home
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/p...ks-back-at-home
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post Oct 26 2018, 08:01 AM
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QUOTE (Paolo @ Oct 25 2018, 06:42 AM) *


Anyone know how to access the raw data for this image?
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Parker has completed its first solar close approach. Apparently it has been sending back "all is well" tones.

First Encounter with the Sun
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