Solar Probe Plus will carry a huge shield that is eight feet in diameter and 4.5 inches thick, made up of carbon-carbon carbon foam. Its solar arrays, JHUAPL said, ...

Solar Probe Plus will carry 10 science instruments specifically designed to help solve two key puzzles of solar physics: why the sun’s outer atmosphere is so much hotter than the sun’s ...

In 2018, NASA will be sending a probe to orbit and study the Sun. The Solar Probe Plus, a craft about the size of a Toyota Yaris, will orbit closer to the surface of the Sun than any spacecraft has ...

Solar Probe Plus—NASA's ambitious mission to fly through and examine the sun's atmosphere—has reached a key stage of development. Solar Probe Plus will begin advanced design, development, and testing, ...

NASA will send a probe to “touch the sun” to help prepare for a “huge solar event” that could wreak havoc on Earth. The space agency today announced the “extraordinary and historic ...

Solar Probe Plus is scheduled to end in June 2025. After passing Venus, it will approach the sun on a series of elliptical orbits across the inner solar system.

In 2018, NASA plans to launch the Solar Probe Plus mission to the sun. Earth is about 93 million miles from the sun, and Solar Probe Plus is slated to get within 4 million miles of the blazing star.

The Solar Probe Plus mission will start with the launch of a spaceship that will complete 24 orbits of the sun. Then, after completing seven flybys of Venus to get closer and closer, ...

Solar Probe Plus will help us predict and manage the impact of space weather on society." The craft itself is currently being built at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

As surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, NASA has neither the time nor the money to build and launch the Solar Probe Plus mission by 2015, no matter how much some U.S. lawmakers… ...

NASA's prepping its Solar Probe Plus mission for a firey sundive. It's no theatrical stunt--it's all about science and understanding how our sun works, which doesn't make it a bit less awesome.

Solar Probe Plus will begin advanced design, development and testing — a step NASA designates as Phase C — following a successful review in which an independent assessment board deemed that ...