As of Christmas Eve, Parker had made its twentieth perihelion, where the spacecraft came within 3.8 million miles of the solar surface while moving at 430,000 miles per hour. The spacecraft emerged from the solar flyby healthy and operating normally. [The legacy video at right is from the sixteenth such pass.]
. . .Following its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has transmitted a beacon tone back to Earth indicating it's in good health and operating normally.
The mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, received the signal just before midnight EST, late on Dec. 26. The team was out of contact with the spacecraft during closest approach, which occurred on Dec. 24, with Parker Solar Probe zipping just 3.8 million miles from the solar surface while moving about 430,000 miles per hour.. . . .
Now you know. And the antenna are now downloading the scads of data -- to Johns Hopkins/NASA. Grin. Onward.
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