News tagged with solar probe plus

Future NASA mission to sun 'a life's dream' for some

The chest-high rack of electronics Justin Kasper is assembling in a Massachusetts office park will fit in a shoe box before he's done.

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created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 10

UD researcher on project team for NASA's first visit to the sun

A University of Delaware researcher is helping to design instruments for a robotic space probe that will go where no other has gone before: the sun.

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created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

NRL's wide-field imager selected for Solar Probe Plus mission

NASA has chosen the Naval Research Laboratory's Wide-field Imager to be part of the Solar Probe Plus mission slated for launch no later than 2018. The Solar Probe Plus, a small car-sized spacecraft will plunge ...

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created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

CfA will play major role in mission to 'touch' the sun

When NASA's Solar Probe Plus (SPP) launches before the end of the decade, it will carry a suite of cutting-edge scientific instruments. Only one - the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) Investi ...

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created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

SwRI energetic particle instruments selected for Solar Probe Plus mission

NASA selected two instruments led by Southwest Research Institute, which measure energetic particles for the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft, slated to launch by 2018. This first-ever journey into the Sun's outer atmosphere - ca ...

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created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Solar Probe Plus mission to plunge directly into Sun's atmosphere

NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018.

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created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 6