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The Parker Solar Probe will make its closest approach yet to the Sun

(arstechnica.com)
164 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 20 Dec 24 11:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.252s | source
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FredPret ◴[20 Dec 24 21:04 UTC] No.42475004[source]▶
If KSP is to be believed, this is shockingly difficult to do
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1. kccqzy ◴[20 Dec 24 22:32 UTC] No.42475756[source]▶
There's a difference between flying directly into the sun as if landing there, and orbiting the sun but so close that the spacecraft is inside the solar atmosphere.

This is doing the latter.