On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar ... It's the fastest spacecraft ever built and is outfitted with a heat shield that can withstand scorching temperatures ...

To survive these close encounters, the Parker Solar Probe is equipped with a Sun-facing heat shield that reaches around 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, while the probe itself remains just 85 degrees ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image made available by NASA shows an artist’s rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the ...

The probe endured temperatures of 1,400C and radiation that could have frazzled the on-board electronics. It was protected by an 11.5cm (4.5in) thick carbon-composite shield, but the spacecraft's ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter ... from the sun's heat by a 4.5-inch-thick carbon-composite shield. During its mission, Parker is providing data that could help ...

There is good news for Sun botherers: the Parker Solar Probe appears to have survived its close encounter with our nearest star. The probe was just 3.8 million miles from the surface of the Sun as it ...

NEW YORK — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest ... It is outfitted with a heat shield that can withstand scorching temperatures up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

That changed in the 2000s. Scientists developed a carbon composite heat shield that can withstand temperatures up to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit while holding the probe’s electronics and instruments to ...

When its mission concludes, most of the probe will incinerate, leaving only its carbon heat shield to orbit the sun for potentially billions of years, until the very end of the solar system itself.

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In the hot but low-density corona, the spacecraft’s shield is expected to warm to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. “It’s monumental to be able to get a spacecraft this close to the Sun,” said John Wirzburger ...

The second and more recent probe involves alleged smuggling of unapproved drugs—the Daiichi-partnered HER2 therapy Enhertu and the cancer immunotherapy Imjudo—from Hong Kong to mainland China.