Parker Solar Probe Puttospeed

NASA's Parker Solar probe first-ever mission to "touch" the Sun was launched aboard a Delta IV-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral on August 12, 2018 on its seven year long mission to reach near Sun and study solar winds reaching earth is a gigantic mission. During Novemebr it is supposed to get first picture of Sun. Recently it captured Milky Way images through its telescope and doing too well.

A memory card containing the names of over 1.1 million people, that includes me, thanks to NASA to let me feel privileged,  was mounted on a plaque and installed below the spacecraft’s high-gain antenna on May 18, 2018. The card also contains photos of Parker and a copy of his 1958 scientific paper predicting important aspects of solar physics giving shape to his idea. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, will travel directly into the Sun's atmosphere about 3.8 million miles from the surface. 

The spacecraft  will be protected from the Sun’s heat by a 4.5-inch-thick (11.43 cm) carbon-composite shield, which will need to withstand temperatures outside the spacecraft that reach nearly 2,500 F (1,377 C).At closest approach, Parker Solar Probe hurtles around the Sun at approximately 430,000 mph (700,000 kph). A lot of information is awaited.