It is NASA’s first planned robotic spacecraft to study outer corona of Sun.

• It has been designed and built by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
• It is named after solar astrophysicist Eugene Parker, first spacecraft of NASA to be named after living person.
• In its seven-year mission, PSP will explore Sun’s outer atmosphere and make critical observations to answer questions about physics of stars.
• Its data will also be useful in improving forecasts of major eruptions on Sun and subsequent space weather events that impact technology on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space.