NASA, Venus and Parker Solar

NASA's Parker Solar Probe to fly by Venus today before historic sun encounter
"We are basically almost landing on a star." Today, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will complete its seventh swing past Venus — the spacecraft's final maneuver around the amber planet — in a flyby that will nudge the probe on a trajectory that will take it within 3.
NASA's Parker Probe Set for Record-Breaking Sun Pass and Venus Flyby
Once it enters into its orbit around the sun on Christmas Eve, Parker—which is around the size of a small car—is estimated to be traveling at around 430,000 miles per hour, according to NASA. The probe is currently traveling at 33,000 mph, NASA's JPL ...
Final Venus flyby for NASA's Parker Solar Probe queues closest sun pass
On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will complete its final Venus gravity assist maneuver, passing within 233 miles (376 km) of Venus's surface. The flyby will adjust Parker's trajectory into its final orbital configuration,
NASA's Parker Solar Probe to pass Venus on record-breaking approach to the sun
NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to make a record-breaking attempt to get close to the sun.
This Final Venus Flyby Will Propel Parker Probe Toward a Record-Breaking Encounter With the Sun
The spunky probe's final gravity assist around Venus will put it on track to break records near the Sun next month.
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NASA Jupiter Images Reveal Gas Giant in Spectacular Detail
Onboard Juno is its famed camera, dubbed "JunoCam." A two megapixel visible light camera, JunoCam is designed "to study the ...
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Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...
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Why can't active NASA astronauts endorse US presidential candidates?
NASA astronauts can vote from space, but why can't they endorse political candidates? As it turns out, U.S. federal law ...
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth Today
A "bus-sized" asteroid being tracked by NASA will zoom safely past the Earth on Wednesday as both celestial objects make a ...
NASA-SpaceX launch recap: Live updates from ISS resupply launch at Kennedy Space Center
Live updates from Monday night's NASA-SpaceX CRS-31 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center ...
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Restoring NASA’s original mission
As a new administration steps in, America’s space program stands at a crossroads. We have an opportunity to refocus NASA on its founding mission: advancing technological leadership and driving ...
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NASA's Voyager finally phoned home with a device unused since 1981
In August 2012, Voyager 1 made history as it entered interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ...
Watch Nasa drone that will visit nearby moon in hunt for alien life in ‘unthinkable’ trip to ‘mysterious ocean world’
NASA is planning to send a drone to a nearby moon that will hunt for alien life. The Dragonfly probe will explore Titan, Saturn’s largest moon – around 745 million miles from Earth. That ...
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NASA's 15-year-old NEOWISE asteroid hunter meets fiery doom by burning up in Earth's atmosphere
Microgravity makes water do weird and wonderful things. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took advantage of that fact to create a ...