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NASA’s Parker Solar Investigation, which became the first spacecraft to fly through Corona – the upper atmosphere of the Sun has just set a new record. Creating history, the NASA spacecraft conducted a check on 18 September with flight controllers at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.
In his latest encounter with the Sun’s atmosphere, which was between 10 to 20 September, Parker saw a speed of 6,87,000 km per hour, matching his own record for the fourth time.
Designed and designed in the APL, NASA spacecraft sent a beacon code to Johns Hopkins, which was working normally even after an autonomous maneuver through its system Sun environment.
It is during this time that Parker set a world record for the fourth time. Earlier, it had reached this extreme speed during a close approach. These were on December 24, 2024, March 22, 2025 and 19 June 2025.
At this bolting speed, Parker could travel from Kashmir to Kanyakumari in only 19 seconds.
What is Parker Solar Investigation?
The Parker Solar Investigation 2018 was launched with the mission of understanding the Sun.
Parker will fly more than seven times the sun compared to any spacecraft.
The spacecraft is slowly revolving around the surface of the sun in any way.
Parker that can achieve maximum speed is 7,00,000 kilometers per hour. NASA said, “This is enough to reach Philadelphia to Washington, DC in a second.”
Parker is still revolving around the Sun in its unique class, NASA has reviewed its future mission milestone beyond 2026.
During this solar encounter, four scientific equipment packages of Parker are collecting unique observation from the Sun’s atmosphere, or inside the corona. NASA said the solar mission will start returning science data from the encounter on 23 September.
Parker Solar Investigation was developed as a part of NASA’s Living with a Star (LWS) program, which directly affects life and society to detect aspects of the Sun-Earth system. The LWS program is managed by the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland
NASA said in a blog, “Overview of Parker’s solar wind and solar events, such as flarers and coronal mass ejections, are important to carry forward the understanding of the sun of mankind,” NASA said in a blog.
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