Parker | ¿Cómo hará esta nave espacial para "tocar" el Sol y no desintegrarse?

This July 6, 2018 photo made available by NASA shows the Parker Solar Probe in a clean room at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Fla., after the installation of its heat shield. NASA's Parker Solar Probe will be the first spacecraft to "touch

In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Wednesday, July 11, 2018, technicians and engineers use a crane to move NASA's Parker Solar Probe into position for mating to its third stage, built and

In this image released by NASA, technicians and engineers perform light bar testing on NASA's Parker Solar Probe at the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on June 5, 2018. The Parker Solar Probe w

This photo obtained August 1, 2018 courtesy of the University of Chicago shows Eugene Parker, Emeritus Professor, University of Chicago with an image of solar wind in 1997. NASA is poised to launch on August 11, 2018, a $1.5 billion spacecraft on a b

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 28, 2018, engineers examine the Parker Solar Probe during a media preview at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Parker Solar Probe will launch on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV He

United Launch Alliance (ULA) workers monitor the progress as the second stage of a ULA Delta IV Heavy is mated to the common booster core inside the Horizontal Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in F

In the Astrotech processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, technicians and engineers deploy the magnetometer boom on NASA's Parker Solar Probe. The Parker Solar Probe will launch on a Un

This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It's designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its revolutionary heat shield that’s capable of withstanding 2,500 degr

At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the Parker Solar Probe is lowered into the 40-foot-tall thermal vacuum chamber. Why? The thermal vacuum chamber simulates the harsh conditions that the spacecraft will experience on its journey through space, in

A brilliant blue sky serves as a backdrop as the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy first stage is being lifted to the vertical position at the Vertical Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Flori

This handout illustration obtained July 6, 2018 courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins APL shows an artistís conception of NASAís Parker Solar Probe, the spacecraft that will fly through the Sunís corona to trace how energy and heat move through the starís a

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 28, 2018, engineers examine the Parker Solar Probe during a media preview at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Parker Solar Probe will launch on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV He

Betsy Congdon, Parker Solar Probe Thermal Protection System lead engineer at APL, shows a sample of what the heat shield can do with heat applied to it during a preview briefing on the NASA's Parker Solar Probe at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Flori