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United Launch Alliance (ULA) is a joint venture of Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense, Space & Security. ULA was formed in December 2006 by combining the teams at these companies which provide spacecraft launch services to the government of the United States. ULA launches from both coasts of the US. They launch their Atlas V vehicle from LC-41 in Cape Canaveral and LC-3E at Vandeberg. Their Delta IV launches from LC-37 at Cape Canaveral and LC-6 at Vandenberg.
Flying into the Sun’s atmosphere (or corona) for the first time. Coming closer to the Sun than any previous spacecraft, Parker Solar Probe will employ a combination of in situ measurements and imaging to achieve the mission’s primary scientific goal: to understand how the Sun’s corona is heated and how the solar wind is accelerated.
Height 72.00 Meters
Max Stages 2
Mass To GTO 14210 kg
Liftoff Thrust 8674 kN
Diameter 5.00 Meters
Mass To LEO 28370 kg
Liftoff Mass 733 Tonnes
Launch Success 15
Consecutive Success 15
Maiden Flight 2004-12-21
Launch Failures 1
NASA's large strategic science missions or large strategic missions, formerly known as Flagship missions or Flagship-class missions, are the costliest and most capable NASA science spacecraft. Flagship missions exist within all four divisions of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD): the astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science divisions.
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The Parker Solar Probe will reach it's 2nd close approach of the sun at approximately 24 Million kilometers out.
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The Launch Pad
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