Want to see your names flashing on Sun? NASA is preping to send spacecraft to our Hot Star

Washington, April 8: Want to send your names to our hottest star, The Sun? Then buy a hot ticket and you will be the lucky one to see your names flashing near the Sun.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe, humanity's first mission to the Sun, is undergoing final preparations for its launch scheduled for 31st July. The spacecraft was flown by the US Air Force to Florida, where it will continue testing, and eventually undergo final assembly and mating to the third stage of the Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle.

After the launch, the Parker Solar Probe will orbit directly through the solar atmosphere, the corona, closer to the surface than any human-made object has ever gone.

While facing brutal heat and radiation, the mission will reveal the fundamental science behind what drives the solar wind, the constant outpouring of material from the Sun that shapes planetary atmospheres and affects space weather near Earth.

 

Throughout its seven-year mission, Parker Solar Probe will explore the Sun's outer atmosphere and make critical observations to answer decades-old questions about the physics of stars.

"This is the second most important flight Parker Solar Probe will make, and we're excited to be safely in Florida and continuing pre-launch work on the spacecraft," said Andy Driesman, Parker Solar Probe project manager from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland.

For the next several months, the spacecraft will undergo comprehensive testing; just prior to being fueled, one of the most critical elements of the spacecraft, the thermal protection system (TPS), or heat shield, will be installed.