ULA Delta IV Heavy Common Booster Cores for the Parker Solar Pro

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy common booster core arrives aboard the company's Mariner ship at Port Canaveral in Florida. Preparations are underway to offload the booster onto a transporter. The Delta IV Heavy will launch NASA's upcoming Parker Solar Probe mission. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection. Liftoff atop the Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to take place from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 37 in summer 2018.

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy common booster core arrives aboard the company's Mariner ship at Port Canaveral in Florida. Preparations are underway to offload the booster onto a transporter. The Delta IV Heavy will launch NASA's upcoming Parker Solar Probe mission. The mission will perform the closest-ever observations of a star when it travels through the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona. The probe will rely on measurements and imaging to revolutionize our understanding of the corona and the Sun-Earth connection. Liftoff atop the Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to take place from Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 37 in summer 2018.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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