Launch Alert | Flight 7
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Success
Sun Aug 12 2018
United Launch Alliance

Parker Solar Probe

Launch Successful
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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

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Rocket Details

Name:

Delta IV Heavy

Description:

The Delta IV Heavy (Delta 9250H) is an expendable heavy-lift launch vehicle, the largest type of the Delta IV family, and is the world's second highest-capacity rocket in operation. It is manufactured by United Launch Alliance and was first launched in 2004.

Delta IV Heavy rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Heliophysics
  • 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.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

Pad

Space Launch Complex 37B