Parker Solar Probe - The Fastest, Hottest Space Probe Ever

You guys have heard of this right?
Just a friendly reminder that it's launching tonight and the Delta IV always puts on a good show.

[@Auriam]

Oh man, I'm so glad they were smart enough to do the mission at night, imagine how hot it would get during the day!

[@s4ss1n]

so its closest approach will be on the dark side of the sun ? :)P

[@Nilguiri]

That joke is way older than IR Baboon! We used to tell it in the 1970's about the Irish mission to the sun.

[@cokeforever]

Auriam Two blondes at the airport. One says to the other: How do they steal those planes? Those are huge! The other responds: Don't be stupid, they steal them when they're in the sky and tiny )

[@jongyon7192p]

S C Two blonds. I guess we ARE in the 1970s in this thread, nilguiri

[@hevgamer6087]

lol

[@vikkimcdonough6153]

7:32 - They should've just checked "Ignore Max Temperature" in the debug menu.

[@bennybooboobear3940]

Smh noobs

[@JoshKaufmanstuff]

NASA should hire you Scott as a communicator. This is the most entertaining and educational (not to mention enthusiastic!) description anyone could make for the Solar Probe!

[@ChrisMisMYhandle]

7 gravity assists! Some clever boys planned that.

[@666Tomato666]

the scientific term is "steely-eyed missile men"

[@TheSeppentoni]

They played KSP forever to get it right.

[@TheMegaOne1000]

Or it was an algorithm simulating probe launches endlessly until one of them ventured close enough to the sun.

[@S.ASmith]

Transistors are indeed clever bois 14nm clever bois at that

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

I was gonna bring up gender assumption, but it was already trumped by species assumption. Cool.

[@miniman3112]

The Parker Probe would be much more heat-resistent if it was covered in Parker Squares.

[@onemadscientist7305]

Actually, it would be *almost* heat-resistant enough to keep the spacecraft from melting in the hellish temperature of the corona, but not *quite* heat-resistant enough.

[@miniman3112]

One Mad Scientist Almost perfect! :D

[@josephgroves3176]

I wanted to make that reference but not sure if ppl here would get it. Glad to see such an overlap

[@bennylofgren3208]

Joseph Groves Came here looking for Parker squares. Was not disappointed.

[@lalithchandramusipatla1480]

Please make a kerbal launch of Parker solar probe in your next vid scott

[@Paganinifire]

lalithchandra musipatla i miss tony probe 😐

[@daanwilmer]

The Delta Heavy looks very Kerbal, so should be no problem.

[@ferghusmeighan5401]

I want that to happen.

[@lachdenan9875]

Kekked and seconded.

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

This seriously looks like the point of the game... if you own it, YOU fuckin do it. lmao. play the game, don't sit and pick your nose while someone else does it. what even is this world anymore?

[@Wingman77tws]

I don't know how you make such high quality non cut single take videos like this.... quite a talent.

[@nathanseybold6679]

NASA: "Hey, I've got an idea! Let's shoot a probe into the sun!" I swear, our space program is getting more and more Kerbalized by the minute...

[@youkofoxy]

But that is the best way to go, as long no living things died.

[@nathanaelvetters2684]

youkofoxy except perhaps any bacteria that managed to survive the cleanrooms

[@nathanseybold6679]

No, they're usually pretty good about that sort of thing. You can't account for everything, though.

[@auroraourania7161]

The clean rooms definitely aren't stopping everything for this. There's minimal concern with the planetary protection because it won't be landing on a planet, and the only planet that it could potentially collide with is way harsher than any of our clean room sterilization anyway. They have enough to protect the instruments and probably little more.

[@nathanaelvetters2684]

Jake Schaafsma yeah, the main concern is keeping dust and particles off. Bacteria don't really matter and they'll all die soon anyway when they get into the searing heat of the sun.

[@coryman125]

Huh, the Parker Solar Probe? Hopefully it doesn't end up being a Parker Square of a mission. ...wait, wrong channel?

[@wierdalien1]

Just asking for trouble

[@robsbackyardastrophotograp8885]

It kind of is in that it is almost flying directly into the sun, but not quite :)

[@daanwilmer]

First attempt is a scrub, so... Better luck tomorrow?

[@K1lostream]

Might be a Parker square, but newtons laws don't allow for orbits in Parker circles.

[@bennylofgren3208]

coryman125 Came here looking for Parker squares. Was not disappointed.

[@grabisen]

The probe isnt called Icarus? Dissapointed

[@masterchief2981]

Gabriel amador sanchez well, Icarus flew close to the sun and died.

[@KuraIthys]

And so will this, eventually. Even if the mission is a success, this probe will eventually be destroyed by the sun. XD

[@masterchief2981]

KuraIthys well yes, but you can still what I mean right?

[@masterchief2981]

Neptune ??

[@idemus168]

...clear evidence that NASA is superstitious ;)

[@deanmilos4909]

Man, that probe is gona break a crap lot of records

[@timmcdaniel6193]

2:33 "point four AU". 0.4 AU is about the distance of Mercury, which would be nice but not a record-setter. It will be 0.04 ("point zero four") AU.

[@timmcdaniel6193]

5:46 OK, fixed there, just not back at 2:33. "25 times the apparent size": isn't it 25 times wider, and therefore 625 times larger in area, or am I getting the math wrong?

[@scottmanley]

No that's correct.

[@Joddit]

@Timothy McDaniel: It's actually not unusual to use apparent size and apparent diameter (or angular diameter) as synonyms, even though the latter is a more accurate description...

[@n16161]

Man, I love this content. Dude’s just on his phone with headphones in, talking about cool stuff he’s learned about. Love it.

[@wijtzeheinvanderveen]

Thanks for the very clear explanation. Also love the scenery!

[@SkulShurtugalTCG]

Im at KSC, looking forward to watching it live!

[@FiNiTe_weeb]

haha denied

[@Freakschwimmer]

took me longer than I'd like to admit to figure out he was talking about the *Kennedy* Space Center...

[@bennybooboobear3940]

@@Freakschwimmer loll

[@malvahalva9610]

@@Freakschwimmer I thought it was the kerbal space Center when he said that

[@Freakschwimmer]

@@malvahalva9610 yea, Me too :D

[@XZenon]

1:37 _"...get _*_down_*_ there."_ This brings up an interesting point about orientation in gravity wells.. we usually say "down" or "below" to things that are physically closer to the ("local") gravitational centre.. so saying "down" about going to the sun, oddly enough, somewhat makes sense, considering its the stronger field around here...

[@leeterthanyou]

I put off going out to the pubs with friends tonight so I could stay home and watch this thing fly. This is an excellent run-down and visualization! Loads of spots I've tried to get some data on regarding its track towards perihelion weren't nearly as visual, and for this I thank you!

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Why don't they show the launch in the pubs?

[@mrpigeon589]

My uncle works at Technologies Manegment Associates Incorporated (TMA) and he told me that he helped work on the hardware that is on the space probe!

[@MrAlRats]

At closest approach of the probe, seven years into the launch of the mission, it will be just short of 10 solar radii from the centre of the Sun.

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

Can't wait for the launch !

[@Jeffrey_Wong]

The Exoplanets Channel Too bad you'll have to We all have to :(

[@fjbz3737]

The Exoplanets Channel I was there at the launch

[@LaunchPadAstronomy]

Awesome video, Scott. One comment: you mentioned PSP has a second solar system that’s used when the primary system is retracted. It’s actually the same primary panels that are in use, but the outer tips are angled inward to catch sunlight. Looking forward to a great launch!

[@ValosarX]

The title of this video excited me more than I'd like to admit

[@planetrob555]

Damn, man. You explain things that OUGHT to be explained! Thank You for making these videos. The community ought to better appreciate them. But...I'm sure they will in time. Keep on Keepin' on!

[@generaliserad]

It's been a nice mini game geolocating all the vlogs. great success

[@CLipka2373]

"But trust me on the sunscreen."

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

"Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99"

[@CLipka2373]

That, or '97, depending on version.

[@stolz999]

Awesome! Great podcast!

[@RMoribayashi]

Thanks to Scott for the heads up for the launch. I watchd this at 3AM EDT, well half of it. I hit pause and switched over to NASA TV. Unfortunately the launch was scrubbed. They had a long delay that used up most of the launch window so when they had a second problem at T-1:55 there was not enough time to reset the clock.

[@AudioCalibrator]

just imagine in the future, where manned space travel is commonplace, imagine the look on the crew's faces when they pick up an incoming metallic object traveling at high speed towards them just to realise it's the bloody heat shield from the Parker Solar Probe.

[@clematis726]

Great video as always

[@cmdrterrorfirma4244]

They should have put a fuel scoop on it so it could keep refueling...

[@josephgroves3176]

CMDR Terrorfirma. I'm sure you can see the enormous problems with bringing hot corona into your spacecraft

[@cmdrterrorfirma4244]

yep - or a subtle reference to a newer version: "Elite: Dangerous" :-)

[@Armageddon325]

Good idea. Fuel rats are kinda hard to come by in the solar system in 2018. You’d have to wait until 3304.

[@ENCHANTMEN_]

BlazeTheGryphon7x7 They call themselves AAA, but their range is pretty limited

[@mrdzin1209]

@@cmdrterrorfirma4244 WOW, i just read your comment (NOV 22 2020) and go to Steam to check the game out, and in the review section someone mentioned this game is currently FREE on Epic game store for 1 week (from NOV 19 to NOV 26). HOW CRAZY IS THAT!?

[@ooziiehamz2512]

CGI is getting better, well done guys!

[@scottmanley]

I assure you that bridge in the background is not CGI

[@ProWhitaker]

Thanks for the video

[@jerry3790]

Fly safe Parker Solar Probe, fly safe.

[@unvergebeneid]

I can just about imagine the newscasters trying to explain this to normal people: "So it's leaving as one of the fastest objects ever made but it actually slows down, which makes it speed up and then... look, just play KSP, you guys. I can't even, with those orbital dynamics."

[@user-si5fm8ql3c]

I Just know that they will Most likely get everything wrong

[@norm1124]

Catching fire in space 😊

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

Thanks man.

[@Codysdab]

The nice thing is our family's name are all on the probe, everyone in the house is really excited about it.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Well, now it's on it's way! Sunny working vacation coming up! :-)

[@bippityboppityboo552]

This video reminds me of My older brother Dolm. He used to pretend he was the sun and I was the space shuttle. He would inch closer to me slowly and I would pretend to heat up and activate my emergency systems. But at the end he would always catch me and tickle me!

[@TheTomBevis]

If you were in that million degree corona, behind a good solar shield, you could freeze to death.

[@CapitaoAmerica737]

Foint pour UA fer pecond. Some legit measures right here.

[@chris-hayes]

Wasn't planning to watch this live, but randomly woke up at 3am, "okay, I guess I am watching the parker probe live"

[@sudantarescosmonautics9422]

This is a very Kerbal-like mission.

[@BSJinx]

Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to probe the sun!

[@taiming71]

In the extended universe Lando had a mining op on a planet near a sun. they used a solar shield to travel to and from the planet and they had the mining equipment mounted on a huge walking base made out of AT-AT walkers It is awesome this mission is happening in my life time.

[@Guffy1990]

They're putting a small flash storage device on it and a wee while back NASA opened up submissions to put your name on that storage. I'm really happy to say that my name is going to get closer to the sun than anything manmade ever has before! Also I have a pal nicknamed Parker who doesn't give a shit about things like this and he's quite interested in it too, god speed Parker Probe!

[@MultiNacnud]

the most important scientific question to be answered by the parker probe-"does anybody want any toast?".

[@generalcodsworth4417]

It's about time we made something go faster than Voyager. That poor thing has been holding that record for decades as its battery slowly dies

[@alexmarshall4331]

Like the 7 inch single reference...that made real sense... 👉🇬🇧👉💎👉👜👍.

[@Ben-nk3cx]

Parker probe? Is that like a Parker square?

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Almost, but not quite.

[@jeffvader811]

I'm gonna wake up early tomorrow to watch this one, better get to bed sooner rather than later :/

[@patrickford9615]

Im staying up to watch the launch. Just thinking, " wish Scott Manley had a clip on the probe..." Cheers Scott

[@Trusteft]

This reminds me of a Star Trek episode, I don't remember which series, I think Enterprise or TNG, where there was an alien race which had spaceship which could go really really close to a star. Much closer than what starfleet had. I don't remember what happened in that episode, but that I remember.

[@gateandara]

I got to see the Parker Solar Probe in person while it was being assembled; it was so neat! Hadn't yet been mated with the heat shield, but most of the rest of the probe was put together by that point. JHU APL does some amazing work. They had a massive success with New Horizons and hopefully Parker does just as well.

[@sajukkhar]

I remember a comet that went that close and survived

[@dfdgfdgf0000]

Vwhen I click on one of your videos, I always put a thumb up before even seins it because I know it is gonna be great ;)

[@chacoby2217]

hey i work there near that bridge everyday XD lve lived in cali my whole life, hopefully some day i will get to see you walking around there and say hi :)

[@sirjacko292]

I was just checking the specs on the endline for the rotary girder.

[@jamesharmer9293]

Those eyebrows are getting impressive !!

[@bygodnick]

Only a couple of hours left!

[@onewhosaysgoose4831]

"Welcome to the Badass Reactor of Badassitude, badass! This is Parker Solar Probe, broadcastin' to you from deeeeeeeeeeep orbit! If you're here, that means you wanna break space records, gather unique and interesting data, and earn the title of Number one Badass Probe!" -Parker Solar Probe, manufactured by the torgue corporation.

[@Aurora-lb2vy]

I was in Florida for vacation the supposed day of the launch in the hotel parking lot waiting for it until the count stopped at 1:15. The launch was scrubbed and I wouldn’t see it myself again cause I had to leave the next day.

[@daveslow84]

"I'm Scott Manley, fly safe." Flies into sun...😎😀

[@krampuz1192]

Its soooo fast we couldnt even see it fly, it stayed on the pad 😉

[@heatshield]

I can't wait.

[@JuniorFanCirca1989]

MC Yo-yo-de-spin!

[@thePronto]

With all those gravity assists, they should have called it the "Parkour Solar Probe"...

[@victorbautistakatsalukha461]

Hello Mr. Manley, I'm an aerospace engineering student and I love your science videos, so much accurate information! I was wondering, where do you find all this information about all the missions and how do you keep yourself updated? Thank you

[@scottmanley]

Lots of googling.

[@solarmaster3405]

Hopefully the Parker Solar Probe doesn't become a Parker Square.

[@OutpostH]

Hi Scott, love the show. Two comments... Glad to see NASA making a night launch of probe that’s going to orbit the Sun. Secondly, you said strapon, and third, I’m drunk. Too much dubious work/life balance. Carry on.

[@PaulPaulPaulson]

Let's hope all things go (gravity) wel!

[@ThorkilKowalski]

Scott Manley, 2018: Deep into the *corona*! Illuminaty confirmed. 0:35

[@Unknwn-fw3po]

what does that have to do with the illuminaughti? also its the suns corona.

[@winfehler]

Thanks for the heads-up, Scott - I’ll be right back after the launch ! Edit: Alright then, same time tomorrow ?

[@rosedruid]

I would have thought it would get closer than 25 times bigger than here. I’d have thought nearly half the sky would have been in the corona. A sample return mission using a solar sail might be kind of neat if there was anything worth sampling.

[@scottmanley]

The photosphere is smaller than the corona.

[@ScottMaday]

NASA’s so dumb: why would they launch at night? Doesn’t everyone know that the sun only comes out during the day!?!

[@artman40]

There's no Sun at night. Although they should have launched during winter when the Sun is cooler.

[@Anvilshock]

Scott Maday's so dumb: Of all the available jokes, he makes the most uncreative and most repeated one.

[@party4lifedude]

@@Anvilshock but sadly there are a lot of people who would seriously think this way. I've seen people say dumber things and totally mean it.

[@dsdy1205]

It's interesting to think about the fate of the probe - one day its fuel will run out, and it will lose pointing and turn into the Sun. Most of the probe would quickly burn up, melt, or even vaporise, but the heat shield would remain and continue on its merry way, orbiting the Sun.

[@ragtimesongs]

I hope the probe gets there at night

[@raykreiger4123]

Hope you have a good visit in San Francisco

[@scottmanley]

I visit every day.

[@SpuriousECG]

I thought Kelvin would at least have one degree, if not more! :D

[@sleeptyper]

My guess is that plasma matter ejecting from the Sun has more room to wiggle about than it had while it was still part of the surface matter. More wiggle = higher apparent temprature. Maybe we are mismeasuring surface of Sun...

[@frealms]

2:44 Saved by the bell! Can't have that kind of dissident talk in San Francisco mate xD

[@Shaden0040]

It launches tomorrow not later today. Launch date 8/11/18 3:33 AM Saturday. NASA is live streaming the launch. 3:33 am is it if all goes as planned with no added delays.

[@jakistam1000]

What's the date and time in UTC?

[@Shaden0040]

UTC is +5 hours same date. Rescheduled to launch 8/12/18 at 4:28AM ET US 09:28AM UTC

[@jakistam1000]

Thank you! :)

[@5Andysalive]

Good to hear it's using the primary solar system :) Btw, nice bridge there. What's it called?

[@QuintonMurdock]

Scott. You should do stuff on jet trains

[@Ubernator]

Where will it be live streamed?

[@1956vern]

Scott You were talking about the reaction wheels. Did the use the ceramic bearings? I kinda equate the problem with the metal ball bearings to a couple grapes touching in a microwave oven and the reaction to plasma between each grape!

[@escarfangorn]

KENEDA!!! WHAT DO YOU SEE?!?

[@jgriz6527]

Sad it got scrubbed for 24 hours, I can’t watch it live tonight now with work in the morning 😭

[@childnuggets9321]

Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage -Scott Manley

[@Zormac]

Oh, they're following the troll physics: go to the sun at night, when it's cool :D

[@edoardoguglielmi2523]

Good video. 1 thing is that when you talk about orbital mechanics you can’t just say that you have to slow down because as you already know if you slow down you will speed up because your periapsis is closer to the object and you speed will be higher, it can get confusing

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

Set the controls for the edge of the sun

[@slug..]

I think he said it's going to get very very hot at least 20 times during this video

[@benjaminbrooks9502]

How much energy will the spacecraft recieve per square meter? Will it be transmitting during the close approaches, and can we hear it with the background radiation?

[@blueberry1c2]

Is there going to be a webcast or livestream of the launch somewhere?

[@jasonk.]

I wonder at that close distance, whether the momentum of photons have a significant effect on the orbit of the solar probe?

[@fakeusernamethatwemadeupso5385]

It's like a rocket ship, just not quite. #ParkerSquare

[@fakeusernamethatwemadeupso5385]

Actually, i think this is interesting. I just had to make the joke.

[@davecrupel2817]

Millions of degrees? Theres not a material we can access that can withstand against heat like that. If this probe survives this trip, and comes back to the GoldyLocks zone, i will be thoroughly impressed.

[@jordanperetti7054]

Daniel Cannata yeah the temperature is very high but the density of the gas is so low that the spacecraft can lose a lot of heat as well. In fact, for example, there are like thousands of degrees celsius in Earth's upper atmosphere but if you go there without a spacesuit you get frozen because you lose more energy than you receive

[@jakubhosek6834]

The thing is, if you touch a hot water, it will hurt you, but if you enter a room, where there is a steam of the same temperature, it will not. You can also observe this in winter if you live in a continent where you have winter with snow and temperatures below zero. It is ok to touch for example wood in winter, but iron seems to be much more "freezing". The thing is, different materials have different densities, and because of that some materials transfer heat better than others.

[@15Redstones]

The molecules of the sun's atmosphere that will touch the probe will be very hot, but there will be relatively few of them so that the total heat (heat=temperature * amount of material at that temperature) is actually manageable. Same reason why we can easily heat up single atoms to billions of degrees in labs.

[@easyredleg7007]

Fastest man-made ship ever, eh? Elon may need someone to hold his beer.

[@Someone-cr8cj]

"a little more"