My name in space: Parker Solar Probe
Mission: Parker Solar Probe
Current position: orbiting Sun
Operator: NASA, Applied Physics Laboratory
Launch: August 12, 2018, 07:31 UTC
COSPAR ID: N/A
Parker Solar Probe (previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus, or Solar Probe+) is a NASA robotic spacecraft to probe the outer corona of the Sun. On 29 October 2018 at about 1:04 p.m. EDT, the spacecraft became the closest ever artificial object to the Sun.