by Sebastian | Dec 31, 2018 | Space Probes, Technology
Launched as a part of NASA’s New Frontiers program aimed at researching the region of our solar system beyond Pluto, New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe responsible for conducting flybys of some of our solar system’s most distant objects. Engineers at the...
by Sebastian | Nov 3, 2018 | News, Space Probes, Technology
On October 29, 2018, a mere 78 days after launch, the Parker Solar Probe has broken the record for closest man made object to the sun. The German-American Helios 2 Spacecraft, which launched in April 1976, held the previous record of 26.55 miles from the Sun’s...
by Sebastian | Oct 13, 2018 | NASA, News, Space Probes, Technology
Launched on August 12, 2018, the Parker Solar Probe is a robotic spacecraft headed to probe and examine the Sun’s outer corona. The project was announced in 2009, marking humanity’s first mission to a star. The Parker Solar Probe will orbit within 4...
