Parker Solar Probe Marks 13th Full Year in Space

Name: Parker Solar Probe Marks 13th Full Year in Space
Start: 2031-08-12T00:00:00-10:00
End: 2031-08-12T23:59:59-10:00
Location: Heliocentric Orbit

August 12, 2031

NASA craft surpasses another full year in space today, having launched Aug 12, 2018; probe came within ~6.16M km of the Sun on Dec 24, 2024 which is ~7 times closer than any prior spacecraft, traveling faster than any other human-made object at ~692,000 km/hr.