The last flyby of NASA's Parker Probe occurred on November 6 over Venus. The Parker Probe seeks maximum speed. It is a flyby with gravitational assistance, and it will become the fastest ship ever built by humans. when it passes through the sun.
Its objective is to pass as close to the sun as possible and obtain data from the Sun, study the Sun, although in the process since it passes through Venus it also sends us a lot of data about Venus, and take advantage of everything possible, in this case December 24th will be passing 6.1000 km from the sun will be the closest a ship has ever been to the sun and in the end it will reach 200 km per second, 720,000 km per hour
200 km per second is the fastest that a spacecraft created by the name will achieve, it is still very far from the 300,000 km per second that light reaches and although it is an enormous speed, if we launched that ship towards centauri, it would still take 6300 years to reach it.
Gravitational assists occur when a spacecraft flies over a planet or a large natural satellite, because if it does not have good gravity, little will push you and in this way the gravity of the planet or satellite ends up attracting the spacecraft and changing Its orbit is like doing a fall, but with a trick to get thrown off.
Sometimes depending on the angle this increases the speed of the spacecraft, while in others it decreases it, for example, it is very useful when your ship reaches a planet to do gravitational assists so that this ship loses speed and does not pass. long, it needs to slow down for that planet to enter orbit.
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