Parker Solar Probe Ready for Launch on Mission to the Sun | NASA

Parker Solar Probe Ready for Launch on Mission to the Sun | NASA

Parker Solar Probe Ready 

for Launch on Mission 

to the Sun

Packed safely inside the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket payload fairing, NASA's Parker Solar Probe is slated to launch on Saturday, August 11, 2018, at 3:33 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The Parker Solar Probe will travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, closer to the surface than any spacecraft before it. The mission will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun, where changing conditions can propagate out into the solar system, affecting Earth and other worlds.

Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Last Updated: Aug. 10, 2018

Editor: Yvette Smith