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Space.com: NASA Solar Probe Hits 1st Deep-Space Milestones On Its Way to the Sun.
https://www.space.com/41531-parker-solar-probe-first-milestones-to-sun.html
@jaybee165 So glad everything is going alright! Had a great time watching the launch.. when it finally happened. ;) (Better safe than sorry!)
@evistre I also love that Parker himself got to see his namesake start its mission!
@jaybee165 Me, too! Super sweet.
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"The sun's powerful gravity will accelerate the Parker Solar Probe to record-shattering speeds during these encounters. During that final solar flyby, the spacecraft will reach a top speed of about 430,000 mph (690,000 km/h). That's more than double the current mark, set by NASA's Juno probe during its arrival at Jupiter in July 2016.
Mindblowing speed. How will it even keep from falling apart with that gravitational force.