U-M hardware on fastest human-made object ever

[Gulo Blue]

https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/09/nasa-parker-solar-probe-launch/


The Parker Solar Probe launches tomorrow (8/11/18). It has equipment to conduct 5 main experiments, and one of the projects is led by a Michigan professor. Over the course of years, it will slingshot by the sun several times, eventually reaching a top speed of 430,000 mph. That's 0.064% of the speed of light. It will get as close as 3.83 million miles from the sun; Earth is 150 million miles from the sun.

 

[biggunsbob]

Very cool.

 

[Gulo Blue]

It's not the fastest object yet, but it has broken the record for closest man-made thing to the sun.


https://www.space.com/42283-parker-solar-probe-closest-to-sun-record.html

 

[Gulo Blue]

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/177

We've 'touched the sun'
Go Blue!