The First Solar Encounter

 

Parker solar probe completed successfully its first trajectory correction maneuver.

This maneuver will allow Parker Solar Probe to come within about 3.83 million miles of the sun surface on its closest approach in 2024.

Parker Solar probe was launched by about 1.1 million names that will be launched on the sun

On September 13, Parker Solar Probe’s first of its kind water cooled solar array cooling system was made fully operational.

On September 25, 2018, Parker Solar Probe captured a view of Earth as it sped toward the first Venus gravity assist of the mission.

On October 3,2018, Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its flyby of Venus at a distance of about 1,500 miles during the first Venus gravity assist of the mission.

Parker Solar Probe surpassed 153,454 miles per hour as calculated by the mission team making it the fastest-ever human-made object relative to the Sun. This breaks the record set by the German-American Helios 2 mission in April 1976.