Parker Solar Probe

Parker Solar Probe

Parker Solar Probe NASA EDGE Rollback Webcast Today

Linda HerridgePosted onAugust 10, 2018

Encapsulated in its payload fairing, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has been mated to a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 37 on Tuesday, July 31, 2018. The Parker Solar Probe is being prepared for a mission to perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun’s atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection. Photo credit: NASA/Leif Heimbold

Watch the live webcast with NASA EDGE during the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Mobile Service Tower rollback at Space Launch Complex-37. The live show begins at 6:30 p.m. and can be viewed on NASA TV and social media at: NASA TV: www.nasa.gov/live 
NASA EDGE Facebook: www.facebook.com/nasaedgefan
NASA EDGE YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/NASAedge
NASA EDGE Ustream: www.ustream.tv/nasaedge

Guests on the show:Jim Green, NASA’s Chief Scientist
Nicky Fox, Parker Solar Probe project scientist, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Eric Christian, deputy principal investigator of Integrated Science Investigations of the Sun (ISOIS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Betsy Congdon, Parker Solar Probe Thermal Protection System lead engineer, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Mic Woltman, chief, Fleet Systems Integration Branch, NASA’s Launch Services Program

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is scheduled to lift off atop a ULA Delta IV Heavy at 3:33 a.m. EDT, at the opening of a 65-minute window, on Saturday, Aug. 11