NASA did this by sending the Parker probe close to Venus many times. Each Venus flyby adjusted the probe’s orbit in a way that brought it closer to the sun with each solar flyby.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is spending Christmas Eve on a history ... nearly 10 times closer than Mercury's orbit around the star. The probe was traveling at an incredible speed of 430,000 mph ...

On Saturday, the space agency's Parker Solar Probe is expected to launch to orbit, beginning its long and winding journey that will eventually allow humanity to touch our nearest star for the ...

Launched in August 2018, the Parker Solar Probe was built to get up close and ... a record that it’s set to break as its highly elliptical orbit tightens. The fury of a CME at close range.

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...

Launched in August 2018, the Parker Solar Probe was built to get up close and ... a record that it’s set to break as its highly elliptical orbit tightens. The fury of a CME at close range.

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Such an orbit will give it a chance to fly closer ... in much the same way Parker Solar Probe does. Energetic particle detector Magnetometer Radio and plasma waves Solar wind plasma analyzer ...

The data will also complement NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, offerin... Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully completed its first test flight, reaching orbit within 12.5 minutes of launch ...

An orbit over the Sun’s poles would provide ... in advanced space-based solar studies. NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe in 2018 and in December made an approach as close as 6.1 million ...