Parker Solar Probe

NASA's Parker Solar Probe zoomed past Venus on Aug. 21, using the planet's gravity to aim toward a record-setting series of flights around the Sun that start next month.

On Aug. 12, 2018 – five years ago this week – NASA's Parker Solar Probe blasted off atop a powerful Delta IV rocket.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 3, 2023, that kept the spacecraft on track to hit the aim point for the mission's sixth Venus flyby on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.