Parker Solar Probe is healthy and operating normally after its sixth pass by the Sun on Sept. 27, confirmed with a signal received by mission controllers at JHU Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) early on Sept. 30. This solar flyby — the closest that any spacecraft has ever made — carried Parker Solar Probe within 8.4 million miles of the Sun’s surface, less than a tenth of the distance between the Sun and Earth.
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