Sun
Parker Solar Probe
Parker Solar Probe is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the SOLTP program.
Interactive three-dimensional model of Parker Solar Probe. Mission information is also available as text below.
Operational or in flight at the GCAT cutoff
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Parker Solar Probe is catalogued by GCAT as a deep-space mission in the SOLTP program. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 2018-065; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
The launch
- Launch
- 12 August 2018, 07:31 UTC
- Launch location
- Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Eastern Test Range
- Launch vehicle
- Delta 4H/Star 48BV
- Orbit
- Earth-escape trajectory
Launch intelligence
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket launched the Parker Solar Probe mission on Sunday, August 12, 2018 at 7:31 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- United Launch Alliance (ULA)
- Vehicle
- Delta IV Heavy
- COSPAR launch ID
- 2018-065
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Aug 12, 2018, 07:31 UTC
- Target T-0
- Not published
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Aug 12 2018
- Pad and location
- SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral SFS
Humid and Partly Cloudy Temp: 77.28F Wind: 8.74mph
- Temperature
- 77°F
- Forecast updated
- Aug 12, 2018, 00:07 UTC
Launch media
Mission timeline
Follow the mission through its available trajectory data in the full 3D solar-system map.
- Now
Current mission status
Now
Operational or in flight at the GCAT cutoff
Spacecraft
Parker Solar Probe
GCAT program: SOLTP.
- GCAT ID
- S43592
- Manufacturer
- JHU-Applied Physics Lab
- Launch mass
- 685 kg
- Dimensions
- 3 m long · 2.3 m diameter · 3 m span
Gallery
9 images from Parker Solar Probe.
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab — Parker Solar Probe (Sun's Kisser)
- Author
- Little Cammie
- Usage
- CC BY 4.0
Community-created model used under CC BY 4.0 and optimized for browser delivery; it is not an official engineering model.
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