Nasa reveals historic 2018 mission to 'touch the sun'
Nasa announced its plans during a live stream event, which was held at the University of Chicago's William Eckhardt Research Centre Auditorium and broadcast on NasaTV
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4558916/Nasa-announces-groundbreaking-Solar-Probe-Plus-mission.html#ixzz50KG5kGYJ
The first solar mission involves the ancient Egyptian goddess ISIS (Egg of the goose)...
Which when launched in 2018 completes a trinity of 'ancient Egyptian' active NASA space missions
-isis-osiris rex/Bennu impactor that would have flown on Mars InSight in 2016^
Another groundbreaking NASA Solar mission launching in 2018 on the FH:
FalconSAT-7, is a nanosatellite developed by the U.S. Air Force Academy to test out a solar telescope with the Peregrine photon-sieve optic - the world's first spaceborne membrane telescope.
-Image the Sun at the H-alpha wavelength of 656.3n
Goddard's Contribution to FalconSat-7
But the work likely won’t end there. In the nearer term, Rabin believes his team can mature the technology for a potential sounding-rocket demonstration. In the longer term, he and team member Joe Davila envision the optic flying on a two-spacecraft formation-flying CubeSat-type mission designed specifically to study the sun’s corona.
“The scientific payoff is a feasible and cost-effective means of achieving the resolution necessary to answer a key problem in solar physics,” he said.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-team-begins-testing-of-a-new-fangled-optic
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