NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 3, 2023, that kept the spacecraft on track to hit the aim point for the mission\u2019s sixth Venus flyby on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. \u200b<\/p>\n
Operating on preprogrammed commands from mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, Parker fired its small thrusters for 4.5 seconds, enough to adjust its trajectory by 77 miles and speed up \u2013 by 1.4 seconds \u2013 its closest approach to Venus. The precise timing and position are critical to that flyby, the sixth of seven approaches in which Parker uses the planet\u2019s gravity to tighten its orbit around the Sun.<\/p>\n
\u201cParker\u2019s velocity is about 8.7 miles per second, so in terms of changing the spacecraft\u2019s speed and direction, this trajectory correction maneuver may seem insignificant,\u201d said Yanping Guo, mission design and navigation manager at APL. \u201cHowever, the maneuver is critical to get us the desired gravity assist at Venus, which will significantly change Parker\u2019s speed and distance to the Sun\u201d.<\/p>\n
Parker Solar Probe will be moving 394,742 miles per hour when it comes within just 4.5 million miles from the Sun\u2019s surface \u2013 breaking its own record for speed and solar distance \u2013 on Sept. 27, 2023. Follow the spacecraft\u2019s journey through the inner solar system on the Parker Solar Probe website.<\/p>\n
Courtesy: NASA<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center)
NASA\u2019s Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 3, 2023, that kept the spacecraft on track to hit the aim point for the mission\u2019s sixth Venus flyby on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. \u200b Operating on preprogrammed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4598,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions\/4598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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