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The milestone also marked the midway point in the mission's 10th solar encounter, which began Nov. 16 and continues through Nov. 26.
The spacecraft entered the encounter in good health, with all systems operating normally. Parker Solar Probe is scheduled to check back in with mission operators at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland—where it was also designed and built—on Nov 24.
The spacecraft will transmit science data from the encounter—largely covering the properties and structure of the solar wind as well as the dust environment near the sun—back to Earth from Dec. 23-Jan. 9.
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