August 13, 2009
Solar Probe Shield Testers Take the Heat
When Solar Probe Plus soars through the Sun’s atmosphere —facing temperatures 20 times higher than the hottest summer days on Earth—a thin carbon-foam shield will be all that separates the spacecraft from fiery obliteration. That’s why testing and perfecting the probe’s Thermal Protection System tops the list of mission design priorities.
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April 3, 2009
Solar Probe Makes the Grade
In a recent assessment of NASA’s heliophysics missions, the Space Studies Board of the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council gave an “A” grade to Solar Probe Plus. +Read More
Dwayne Brown
NASA Headquarters
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M. Buckley
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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