NASA’s Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 26 that kept the spacecraft on course for the mission’s seventh and final planned Venus flyby on Nov. 6.
Parker Solar Probe Lines Up for Final Venus Flyby


NASA’s Parker Solar Probe executed a short maneuver on Aug. 26 that kept the spacecraft on course for the mission’s seventh and final planned Venus flyby on Nov. 6.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 20th close approach to the Sun on June 30, 2024.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 19th close approach to the Sun on March 30,.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 18th close approach to the Sun on Dec. 28, 2023.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 17th close approach to the Sun on Sept. 27, 2023.

Parker's journey through the CME is helping to prove a 20-year-old theory about the interaction of CMEs with interplanetary dust, with implications for space weather predictions.

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.
NASA's Parker Solar Probe accomplished a milestone on June 27, 2023 – its 16th orbit of the Sun.