• Question: Will any of you be doing any engineering for NASA on the Parker Solar Probe set to go to the Sun?

    Asked by gibygob to Sylwia, Steve, Phil, Matt, Hollie, Helen on 12 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Helen O'Brien

      Helen O'Brien answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      Great question! I will not be, but the spacecraft is doing some complimentary science to the ESA Solar Orbiter Satellite that I do work on. Both spacecraft will be trying to work out some of the mysteries of our closest star.
      Be sure to head over to: http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/The-Mission/Name-to-Sun/ to get your name on the spacecraft 🙂

    • Photo: Hollie Heard

      Hollie Heard answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      Unfortunately not, but I’ll be following the mission and will be eager to see some of the data it produces that can help our understanding. I’ve signed up to get my name on there, have you?

    • Photo: Sylwia Nikel

      Sylwia Nikel answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      I will not, unfortunately. However now learning about it I signed my name to go out with the probe and I will definitely be following the progress. I hope we will get the chance to understand the Sun better.
      I think it’s a great initiative and I would recommend anyone to sign themselves, it’s free and it requires only to have access to an email address. If you don’t have an email address, ask your parents or maybe you could talk to your teacher…

    • Photo: Steve Williams

      Steve Williams answered on 12 Mar 2018:

      No but I have to say this is very ambitious mission with many engineering challenges and not just the heat, the radiation will be off the scale. I would be interested to know whether we hope to learn anything about fusion.

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