News Archive / Tagged: Eugene N. Parker

• Video: SpaceFlight Insider’s Parker Solar Probe launch highlights

  Jason RhianAugust 12th, 2018

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA and United Launch Alliance has sent the space agency's Parker Solar Probe on its way to carry out seven fly-bys of Venus - before heading on its way to study the Sun. Liftoff took place from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37B on Sunday, Aug. 12 at 3:31 a.m. EDT (07:31 GMT). Video courtesy of SpaceFlight Insider's Mike Howard, Mike Deep and Vikash Mahadeo

• Gallery: Flight to light – ULA sends Parker Solar Probe toward the Sun

  Jason RhianAugust 12th, 2018

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- United Launch Alliance sent NASA's Parker Solar Probe spacecraft on its way to "touch the surface of the Sun" (our parent star's coronasphere) on Sunday, Aug. 12. The launch service provider had about an hour in which to get the rocket and its precious cargo off the launch pad at Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 37. However, the Colorado-based firm managed to get the mission underway at the very opening of the window at 3:31 a.m. EDT (7:31 GMT).