Less than two minutes before takeoff, NASA stopped the mission to investigate the Sun's secrets

in #science6 years ago

The Solar Parker probe was going to take off this dawn, but the space agency did not give the approval for being with "unfavorable conditions.

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The launch of the solar probe Parker, the first spacecraft that will travel through the Sun's corona, was postponed until this Sunday due to technical problems, which are now three suspended launches.

The countdown was stopped when a minute with 55 seconds remained, and the Delta IV rocket with the Solar Parker probe remained on its platform. The rocket manufacturer, United Launch Alliance, said it will try again on Sunday as long as the problem of helium pressure can be resolved in time. As soon as the gaseous helium system alarm sounded, a launch controller gave the word "high, high, high".

The launch, which will be carried out from the J. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, was scheduled for early Saturday and was rescheduled for early Sunday.

Parker will be the first probe to reach the solar atmosphere, known as the corona, the US Space Agency announced on its website. It will fly only 6.1 million kilometers from the solar surface, which is more than seven times closer than a ship has ever reached.

First it will go to Venus, the second planet in order of distance from the Sun after Mercury, and it will use its gravity to get as close as possible to the star. The turns around Venus will lead the probe to reach its first point of closest approach to the sun in November. Then it will perform 24 orbits for seven years, gradually bringing the ship closer and closer to the Sun.

The probe, which weighs 700 kilos, will orbit around the Sun in an elliptical path and reach a speed of about 200 kilometers per second. He will also use a combination of calculations and images to study the corona and the evolution of the solar wind.

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