Illustration of parker solar probe approaching the sun.
Nasa parker solar probe speed.
On monday the spacecraft reached a record breaking speed of 213 200 mph.
12 2018 parker solar probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space weather events that impact life on earth.
Parker solar probe will swoop to within 4 million miles of the sun s surface facing heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.
Nasa s parker solar probe is on its first of 24 close passes around the sun.
The spacecraft traveled 11 6 million miles from the sun s surface at perihelion reaching a speed of 244 225 miles per hour.
Parker solar probe will repeatedly break its own records achieving a top speed of about 430 000 miles per hour in 2024.
It will approach to within 9 86 solar radii 6 9 million km or 4 3 million miles from the center of the sun and by 2025 will travel at closest approach as fast as 690 000 km h.
Nasa s parker solar probe will be the first ever mission to touch the sun.
Nasa johns hopkins apl steve gribben.
The spacecraft traveled 11 6 million miles from the sun s surface at perihelion reaching a speed of 244 225 miles per hour.
29 2020 nasa s parker solar probe broke speed and distance records as it completed its fourth close approach of the sun.
Edt as calculated by the parker solar probe team.
Parker solar probe now holds the record for closest approach to the sun by a human made object.
Previously solar probe solar probe plus or solar probe is a nasa robotic spacecraft launched in 2018 with the mission of making observations of the outer corona of the sun.
The spacecraft passed the current record of 26 55 million miles from the sun s surface on oct.
29 2018 at about 1 04 p m.
The parker solar probe will revolutionize our understanding of the sun where changing conditions can propagate out into the solar system affecting earth and other worlds.
For comparison the voyager 1 spacecraft launched back in 1977 is currently traveling at about 38 000 mph 61 000 km h according to nasa less than 10 percent of the parker solar probe s.
The spacecraft about the size of a small car will travel directly into the sun s atmosphere about 4 million miles from our star s surface.
29 2020 nasa s parker solar probe broke speed and distance records as it completed its fourth close approach of the sun.