Parker's solar probe is lowered into a 40-foot high thermal vacuum chamber. Shooting is conducted at the Goddard Space Flight Center. What for?
A thermal vacuum chamber can imitate the harsh conditions that a spacecraft will have to face in space (almost vacuum, as well as extremely high and low temperatures). The device will stay in the cell for about 7 weeks. The final tests are scheduled for March, and the launch will take place in July 2018. To launch using the Dalt-4 rocket.
NASA's mission will improve our understanding of the main star of the system, whose activity affects the Earth. The Parker probe will travel in a sunny atmosphere, moving closer to the surface of other ships.
