The revolutionary technologies that power and cool the Parker Solar Probe
June 27, 2017 by Geoffrey Brown
As NASA's Parker Solar Probe spacecraft begins its first historic encounter with the sun's corona in late 2018—flying closer to our star than any other mission in history—a revolutionary cooling system will keep its solar arrays at peak performance, even in extremely hostile conditions.
Every instrument and system on board Parker Solar Probe (with the exception of four antennas and a special particle detector) will be hidden from the sun behind a breakthrough thermal protection system, or TPS—an eight-foot-diameter shield that the spacecraft uses to defend itself against the intense heat and energy of our star.
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