Agency NASA has published details of the first mission, which should be sent in 2018 to the Sun to the minimum distance.
The first spacecraft NASA will assign the name of a living person.
Space probe probe probe Solar Probe Plus, which starts in the period between 31 July and 19 August 2018 on the carrier rocket Delta IV—Heavy, will have the name Eugene Newman Parker, the famous astrophysicist.
The mission objective will be the study of the properties of the solar wind on which to run space base Solar Probe Parker. Start will take place at Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. A running machine, weighing in at 680 pounds, will move to the planned near the sun to a point about seven years.
During this period of 7 times he would go into the area of gravity of Venus to adjust the trajectory of its flight.
As noted in NASA, when the device will become closer to the Sun, the star will become so hard to pull that he would develop a speed of 700 thousand km / h. For comparison, this rate of speed can be compared with the route from new York to Tokyo, which would have taken less than two minutes.
The temperature in the place of his future domicile will have about 1 371 degrees Celsius.
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