Quote from: Star One on 08/24/2018 06:37 amWouldn’t there be a place for another mission to study the Sun by flying over its poles. There has only been the Ulysses mission to study the solar poles so far as I am aware. Solar Orbiter
Wouldn’t there be a place for another mission to study the Sun by flying over its poles. There has only been the Ulysses mission to study the solar poles so far as I am aware.
A thread for updates on the post-launch, science phase of the missionTimeline (incomplete)12 Aug 2018Launch3 Oct 2018Venus Flyby #15 Nov 2018Perihelion #14 Apr 2019Perihelion #21 Sep 2019Perihelion #326 Dec 2019Venus Flyby #2--- Tony
Yeah, PSP and SO complement each other extremely well.
Last I heard, it was on a 411.
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=26605.0I'm trying to find the early 1960s document I found on solar probe. I thought I posted it here. Anyways, it was pretty much just a square box with a shield out front. Earliest iteration I'd seen. If somebody finds it, please post it here.
Quote from: Blackstar on 08/25/2018 04:29 amhttps://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=26605.0I'm trying to find the early 1960s document I found on solar probe. I thought I posted it here. Anyways, it was pretty much just a square box with a shield out front. Earliest iteration I'd seen. If somebody finds it, please post it here.Might this be the document you were thinking of?
Random questions regarding PSP...1. Certainly, PSP is designed primarily for studying the sun. Would any of it's instruments be useful in searching for the hypothetical Vulcanoids? PSP definitely will have a unique vantage point.2. If the spacecraft remains healthy following it's primary mission and receives an extension... Is it possible to use additional Venus flybys to increase PSP's orbital inclination about the Sun? If so, we could have ourselves the "Polar Parker Solar Probe" - PPSP.Kelly
Common sense would question why you would even come up with a design needing RTGs when you’re going towards the source of all Solar Power. Surely they are only needed when there isn’t enough sunlight for solar panels.
Quote from: Star One on 08/23/2018 12:11 pmCommon sense would question why you would even come up with a design needing RTGs when you’re going towards the source of all Solar Power. Surely they are only needed when there isn’t enough sunlight for solar panels.Because you'd have to expose your solar panels to the Sun for them to work, which is highly problematical at the temperatures anything on the probe exposed to the Sun is going to reach! Plus you have to worry about heat conduction down the power cables.
So where Parker is going is at the limit of Solar panel design then.
Quote from: YesRushGen on 08/30/2018 06:02 pm2. If the spacecraft remains healthy following it's primary mission and receives an extension... Is it possible to use additional Venus flybys to increase PSP's orbital inclination about the Sun? If so, we could have ourselves the "Polar Parker Solar Probe" - PPSP.As to going polar - as the spacecraft leaves venuses orbital plane, encounters with it would be extraordinarily rare, meaning any orbital change stops.Also, the nominal mission is out to 2025.
2. If the spacecraft remains healthy following it's primary mission and receives an extension... Is it possible to use additional Venus flybys to increase PSP's orbital inclination about the Sun? If so, we could have ourselves the "Polar Parker Solar Probe" - PPSP.
For repeated Venus flybys to increase inclination, you want ESA's Solar Orbiter.