Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+, previously NASA Solar Probe, is a planned robotic spacecraft to probe the outer corona of the Sun. It will approach to within 8.5 solar radii (5.9 million kilometers or 3.67 million miles) to the 'surface' (photosphere) of the Sun. The project was announced as a new mission start in the fiscal 2009 budget year. On May 1, 2008 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory announced it will design and build the spacecraft, on a schedule to launch it in 2015. The launch date has since been pushed back to 2018, with the Delta IV Heavy as the launch vehicle.
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| - Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+, previously NASA Solar Probe, is a planned robotic spacecraft to probe the outer corona of the Sun. It will approach to within 8.5 solar radii (5.9 million kilometers or 3.67 million miles) to the 'surface' (photosphere) of the Sun. The project was announced as a new mission start in the fiscal 2009 budget year. On May 1, 2008 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory announced it will design and build the spacecraft, on a schedule to launch it in 2015. The launch date has since been pushed back to 2018, with the Delta IV Heavy as the launch vehicle.
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| - Electric Field Antennas
- FIELDS suite: Electromagnetic Fields Investigation
- Fluxgate Magnetometers
- ISIS‒EPI suite: Integrated Science Investigation of the Sun Energetic Particle Instruments
- SPAN: Solar Probe Analyzers
- SPC: Solar Probe Cup
- Search Coil Magnetometer
- WISPR: Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe
- I‒EPI‒Lo: ISIS Energetic Particle Instrument — Low
- SWEAP suite: Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons Investigation
- I‒EPI‒Hi: ISIS Energetic Particle Instrument — High
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| - Artist’s impression of NASA’s Solar Probe Plus spacecraft on approach to the sun.
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| - NASA Solar Probe
- Solar Probe+
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| - Solar heliophysics orbiter
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| - Digital model of a spacecraft with a hexagonal bus and large heat shield oriented to the surface of the sun
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| - Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+, previously NASA Solar Probe, is a planned robotic spacecraft to probe the outer corona of the Sun. It will approach to within 8.5 solar radii (5.9 million kilometers or 3.67 million miles) to the 'surface' (photosphere) of the Sun. The project was announced as a new mission start in the fiscal 2009 budget year. On May 1, 2008 Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory announced it will design and build the spacecraft, on a schedule to launch it in 2015. The launch date has since been pushed back to 2018, with the Delta IV Heavy as the launch vehicle.
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