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Satellite Programme:
Parker Solar Probe
Programme details
Programme description
Single-satellite programme, addressing solar processes.
USA programme: NASA responsible of development and operations, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md.
The satellite is actively stabilised over 3 axes.
The design operational life is 7 years.
The satellite will orbit around the Sun in a highly elliptical orbit crossing, at intervals (at the perihelion), the corona.
See detailed description at http://solarprobe.jhuapl.edu .
Data circulation
All operations managed by NASA/GSFC by exploiting the international Deep Space Network Data Downlink.
Data processing and service under the responsibility of NASA/GSFC.
Agencies
NASA
Programme lifetime
2018 - 2025
Associated satellites and instruments
Note: red tag => no longer operational , green tag => operational
, blue tag => planned
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 released
OSCAR/Space Version 2.6 was released including new features related to Gap Analysis and satellite status information. With version 2.6 OSCAR/Space has a new URL; https://space.oscar.wmo.int . Please read more via the link here .