NASA’s Solar Probe Plus Mission Moves One Step Closer to Launch
https://www.nasa.gov/...goddard/2016/nasa-s-solar-probe-plus-mission-moves-one-step-closer-to-launch
NASA’s Solar Probe Plus – the first mission that will fly into sun's upper atmosphere and “touch” the sun – has passed a design review,
an important milestone leading to its anticipated summer 2018 launch. The successful review means the mission may now transition from
formulation and design to final assembly and implementation. The spacecraft, as it appears in the image, currently includes the primary
structure and propulsion system. Over the next phase of the mission, engineers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel,
Maryland – which manages the mission and is building the spacecraft – will finish assembly and install the rest of the spacecraft systems
and science instruments.
