The united launch alliance ula delta iv heavy rocket stands ready ahead of the launch of nasa s parker solar probe from slc 37 in 2018.
Parker solar probe delta iv heavy rocket launch.
On board is nasa s parker solar probe a 1 5 million.
Sunday with nasa s 1 5 billion parker solar probe.
Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting.
It will approach to within 9 86 solar radii 6 9 million km or 4 3 million miles from the center of the sun and by 2025 will travel at closest approach as fast as 690 000 km h.
A united launch alliance delta iv heavy rocket launches nasa s parker solar probe to touch the sun sunday aug.
Parker solar probe is humanity s first ever mission into a part of the sun s atmosphere called the corona.
On its second try the united launch alliance rocket blasted off from cape canaveral at 3 31 a m.
This launch uses a special three stage configuration of the united launch alliance delta iv heavy rocket to launch parker solar probe from the earth.
A united launch alliance delta iv heavy rocket launches from cape canaveral air force station s launch complex 37 on sunday aug.
United launch alliance by jamie groh.
12 2018 from launch complex 37 at cape canaveral air force station florida.
The rocket successfully launched on its second attempt after a scrub saturday taking the 1 400 pound probe on.
This configuration of the delta iv is created by taking three hydrogen fueled common booster cores each with an aerojet rocketdyne rs 68a main engine and strapping them together to provide over.