Parker Solar Probe gravity assist flyby of Venus

Wed 06 November 2024
Passing Venus

See also https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/parker-solar-probe/in-depth/

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With a mission to orbit and study the Sun from easily the closest any spacecraft has yet been - less than 4 million miles from the surface withstanding some 1,400° Celsius, 2,600° Fahrenheit - the Parker Solar Probe uses flybys of Venus for gravity assists to orbit increasingly closer to the Sun.
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