Launched NASA's Parker Solar Probe, sending it toward repeated close passes through the Sun's corona closer than any prior spacecraft, using Venus gravity assists. First NASA mission named for a living person, physicist Eugene Parker.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 685 kg
- Flight
- 10th
- of 16 Delta IV Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 12 August 2018, 07:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 2018-065
- Launches in 2018
- 65th of 114
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