NASA's Parker Solar Probe sets 17th Sun orbit speed record

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe sets 17th Sun orbit speed record
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While striving to better comprehend the Sun, the probe orbits closer and closer to it, enduring intense heat and radiation in its mission to 'touch the Sun.'

Yanping Guo, mission design and navigation manager at APL, stated in the NASA blog that Parker’s velocity is roughly 8.7 miles per second. Considering that the craft is moving at an incredibly fast pace, making a small adjustment to its speed and direction might seem unimportant or insignificant. NASA said the milestone also marked the midway point in the mission’s 17th solar encounter, which began September 22 and continued through October 3.Michael Buckley from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory stated: “The spacecraft entered the encounter in good health, with all systems operating normally.”

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