The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft completed the first two of its 24 scheduled orbits around the Sun on 18 June 2019, making history by flying halfway between Mercury and the Sun.
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Parker, E.N. Exploring the innermost solar atmosphere. Nat Astron 4, 19–20 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0985-7
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