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NASA's active Parker Solar Probe flies through the Sun's corona to provide unprecedented observations.
- Launch vehicle
- Delta IV-Heavy with Upper Stage
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Launch Complex 37
- Countries
- United States
- Mission types
- Heliophysics
Chronology
Mission timeline
Mission architecture
Vehicles
Trajectory record
Time-dependent navigation trajectory
Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.
Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.
- Parker Solar Probe: Reconstructed · August 12, 2018 to December 30, 2029
Provenance
Sources
Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.
Data verified through October 7, 2026
- Parker Solar Probe - NASA Science — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Parker Solar Probe Successfully Completes First Venus Flyby - NASA Science — NASAOther · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- Parker Solar Probe original spacecraft description — NSSDCAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- Parker Solar Probe annual attitude product inventory — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- Parker Solar Probe original frame-kernel inventory — OTHERTechnical document · Supports: mission claims
- NASA, ULA Launch Parker Solar Probe on Historic Journey to Touch Sun — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims · event claims
- NASA Renames Solar Probe Mission to Honor Pioneering Physicist Eugene Parker — NASAMission page · Supports: mission claims
- Our Sun: Facts — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context
- Planet Sizes and Locations in Our Solar System — NASAOther · Supports: destination/body context