Heliophysics
United Launch Alliance(ULA)Commercial
Primary payload
Parker
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.
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.
Aug 22, 1975 — ongoing
Orbital Attempt
#5,771
ULA Mission
#130
Pad Launch
#35
Location Launch
#774
Designator
2018-065
Weather GO
95%
Aug 12, 2018, 7:31 AM
1 update
Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) is an installation of the United States Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, located on Cape Canaveral in Brevard County, Florida.
Timezone
America/New_York
Local Launch Time
Aug 12, 2018, 3:31 AM
Total Launches
1,122
Total Landings
75
Coordinates
28.4889, -80.5778
