Before the Parker Solar Probe, the fastest manmade objects were the Helios solar probes, which have been clocked as high as 157,000 mph. The Helios solar probes also were once the human-made ...

The mission is designed to test solar sail technology to help NASA develop larger spacecraft in the future using this next-generation propulsion system. Solar sails work similarly to nautical ...

Helios-2 had set this record in 1976 with a heliocentric speed of 153,454 mph (246,960 km/h). Parker Solar Probe was launched in August this year from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...

Related: Solar wind: What is it and how does it affect Earth? The fresh clue to the decades-old mystery emerged thanks to a chance lineup of two sun-studying spacecraft that provided scientists a ...

To answer these questions, we identified a unique spacecraft configuration where both spacecraft crossed the same portion of solar wind, but at different distances from the Sun. The Switchbacks’ ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 26 that kept the spacecraft on course for the mission's seventh and final planned Venus flyby on Nov. 6. Operating on preprogrammed ...

July 30, 2024 — By diving into the sun's corona, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has ruled out S-shaped bends in the sun's magnetic field as a cause of the corona's searing ... July 19, 2024 — Space ...

The Southwest Research Institute-developed Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) has been delivered and integrated into a National ...

NASA's testing a solar sail system in space, and the spacecraft that brought the tech there has snapped a photo. On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a ...

Rather than carry many instruments with a vast array of purposes, CubeSats focus on a single, specific scientific goal.

Solar wind discovery Physicist Eugene Parker predicted the solar wind’s existence in 1958. The Mariner spacecraft, headed to Venus, would confirm its existence in 1962. Since the 1940s ...