Tag: Touches Sun

SPACE reports, on Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will break its own records for speed and closest approach to the sun as it moves “within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface at a whopping 430,000 mph (690,000 kph).”
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Air Force Times reported that Boeing Company officials are confident that the “high-tech methods Boeing used to design and build the T-7 are saving time, simplifying processes, improving quality and cutting down on defects.” Boeing Vice President and T-7 Program Manager Paul Niewald said, “Everything’s in 3D, everything’s digital. It’s an authoritative source of data. So our technical publications, our flight manuals, our service manuals, they all use the same data that the engineers are using, that our mechanics are using to build the airplane.”
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CNN reported that the Parker Solar Probe has flown through the sun’s upper atmosphere “to sample particles and our star’s magnetic fields.”
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