I'm Felipe Ruiz and this is Solar 60
The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft is continuing its testing at Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland. We are lifting the spacecraft and the TPS
simulator into the space environment simulator SES to start the thermal
balance testing.
The spacecraft and the TPS simulator are now safely in the SES. Goddard
technicians have closed the dome on the chamber. We'll spend the next few days
getting all the cables, thermocouples and other hardware require to support the
test. I'm here with Jack Ercol, lead thermal engineer for Parker Solar Probe.
Jack, what's gonna happen during the test?
For the next seven weeks we'll be
simulating space environments that are equivalent to those experienced during
the mission for Parker Solar Probe. Those environments will range between hot and
cold that will be measured with 400 thermocouples located on the spacecraft
and those temperatures will verify the design as well as the operation during
the extremes it will experience.
Thanks Jack. That's it from Goddard Space Flight
Center - I'm Felipe Ruiz and this is Solar 60