Parker Solar Probe heat shield explained

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  • Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
  • The Thermal Protection System (TPS) enables NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to get close to the Sun. The TPS is a composite structure made of top and bottom carbon fiber facesheets with carbon-carbon foam between them. At closest approach, the front surface of the heat shield will be at about 1371 degrees Celsius (2500 degrees Fahrenheit), the back surface the heat shield will be about 315 degrees Celsius (600 degrees Fahrenheit), but then the spacecraft bus is basically sitting at 30 degrees Celsius (85 degrees Fahrenheit). Patrick Hill (Deputy Project Manager for Parker Solar Probe) and Betsy Congdon (Lead Thermal Protection Engineer), both from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, explain the design of the heat shield.
    Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Johns Hopkins APL
    #ParkerSolarProbe #SolarProbe #Heliophysics

КОМЕНТАРІ • 79

  • @SciNewsRo
    @SciNewsRo  6 років тому +5

    Delta IV Heavy launches NASA’s Parker Solar Probe ua-cam.com/video/socbr3DbxUA/v-deo.html
    Parker Solar Probe explained in detail ua-cam.com/video/zJo0tIxNLxU/v-deo.html
    Parker Solar Probe - orbit and timeline ua-cam.com/video/cMNQeCWT09A/v-deo.html

  • @dmbara2080
    @dmbara2080 6 років тому +20

    Carbon foam. Guess you can't burn something that is already burned...story of my life.

  • @lst1nwndrlnd
    @lst1nwndrlnd 6 років тому +18

    this is the best probe specific videos I've seen.

  • @Hempknight123
    @Hempknight123 6 років тому +22

    Fahrenheit? Do you measure the distance to the sun in hand spans too?

    • @SciNewsRo
      @SciNewsRo  6 років тому +3

      In the description you will find it in Celsius.

    • @jeffreyslater6556
      @jeffreyslater6556 6 років тому +1

      Why? Are you confused by any measurement that doesn’t require you to count your fingers? Cause that’s where bass ten comes from.

    • @mookfaru835
      @mookfaru835 6 років тому +1

      Not necessarily, 10 fingers isn’t optimal for everything

    • @Kalumbatsch
      @Kalumbatsch 6 років тому +6

      In imperial (neanderthal) units, an astronomical unit is 744 million furlongs or 2.97 billion rods.

    • @Hempknight123
      @Hempknight123 6 років тому +6

      Millimetres to Meter: 1000 Inches to foot:12
      Meters to Kilometre: 1000 Feet to Yard: 3
      Yard to a mile: 1760
      Grams to Kilogram: 1000 Ounces to a pound: 16
      Kilograms to a tonne:1000 Pound to ton: 2240
      Its just that simple, lets not have another Mars Climate Orbiter

  • @nullptr8461
    @nullptr8461 6 років тому +16

    Shame NASA failed to use SI

    • @CatatonicImperfect
      @CatatonicImperfect 6 років тому +11

      I would assume they use SI internally, as is the standard in the scientific community, but these interviews are aimed at the greater (US) public.

    • @jeffreyslater6556
      @jeffreyslater6556 6 років тому

      Yet it’s NASA sending this probe. Sure seems to work using their measurement doesn’t it?

  • @kazedcat
    @kazedcat 6 років тому +9

    So the heatsheild is a sandwich of carbon-carbon composite then a carbon foam and then another carbon-carbon composite. Carbon-carbon composite is carbon fiber embedded in a carbon matrix. So it is "CARBON!!!"

    • @Kantuva
      @Kantuva 6 років тому +3

      Diamonds are carbon too, but they sure as heck arent good thermal insulators. I quite liked the emphasis they put on correctly saying all the carbon based components the shield has

    • @stan.rarick8556
      @stan.rarick8556 6 років тому

      Carbon sandwich with carbon filler. 100% chocolate Oreo. :-)

  • @feelingzhakkaas
    @feelingzhakkaas 6 років тому +9

    Very informative and excellent video.
    Is there any heat transfer due to exposed portion of some instruments behind the Heatshield into the probe due to Conduction ?

    • @juantelle1
      @juantelle1 6 років тому

      thought the same

    • @johwel340
      @johwel340 6 років тому

      From what I gather, yes but minimal

    • @LuwieMangubat
      @LuwieMangubat 2 роки тому

      I guess everything coiled by cooling radiator, and it is 85F at the back..

  • @TheNakedsurfer74
    @TheNakedsurfer74 2 роки тому +2

    What is the “white coating “ made of?

  • @RifaOnGaming
    @RifaOnGaming 2 роки тому +1

    so it's basically a sun-baked sandwich

  • @lulutileguy
    @lulutileguy 2 роки тому +1

    what kind of money do people on this project earn

  • @aayushmannntechnical4294
    @aayushmannntechnical4294 2 роки тому +2

    It has become the most successful mission in space by mankind.
    Thanks to NASA

    • @SciNewsRo
      @SciNewsRo  2 роки тому

      Not even close to ua-cam.com/video/iIvgoac4o_A/v-deo.html

  • @DLTangom
    @DLTangom 2 роки тому

    5:14 I can see James web space pic... now its already launched perfectly...

  • @_BiqSqxeeze_
    @_BiqSqxeeze_ 5 місяців тому

    What keeps the probe from rotating and the heat shield facing the wrong way exposing the wrong side to the sun? Very fascinating indeed

  • @thekurdishgirl6538
    @thekurdishgirl6538 3 роки тому +1

    Bruh When we send parkar solar probe to Proxima century?

  • @chartphred1
    @chartphred1 2 роки тому

    Really poor quality microphone pickups used for this article

  • @SuperCannibas420
    @SuperCannibas420 2 роки тому

    omg if I looked at that truss and someone asked me how heavy it was I'd guess 300+ pounds lol

  • @marvinkitfox3386
    @marvinkitfox3386 6 років тому +1

    2500 Fahrenheit on the front face? 1370C, or 1645 Kelvin.
    That is well past yellow hot, approaching pure white hot. About *exactly* the melting point of mild steel.

  • @unfundedopportunities7278
    @unfundedopportunities7278 6 років тому +1

    They are using a million, thin, 4 by 8 panels with 4 million seams. Never understood the shield in the movie 'Sunshine'.

  • @nickgames3856
    @nickgames3856 Рік тому

    Nice and cool in the back, the same shit would happen in a block of concrete

  • @plasmaa76
    @plasmaa76 10 місяців тому

    I always wished i could work on things like this in some small way.

  • @RMFUNTIK
    @RMFUNTIK Рік тому

    that's not how in the Sunshine movie... :D

  • @pacosiquot9625
    @pacosiquot9625 2 роки тому

    very poor video. almost none explanation...

  • @Jay-so2dk
    @Jay-so2dk 6 років тому +2

    This is great innovations

  • @sharmaaks729
    @sharmaaks729 2 роки тому

    The shield could have been made a curve rather than making it flat, so that it could scatter a large fraction of light waves. That could also increase the surface area perhaps. Anyway it is already been doing incredible job. Hats off to the scientists.

  • @rogerayoub8974
    @rogerayoub8974 Рік тому

    But what about the sun gravety

  • @gingernut5057
    @gingernut5057 6 років тому +1

    Powered by arduino.

  • @IceColdProfessional
    @IceColdProfessional Рік тому

    Hey! A fellow Patrick! And he's a scientist! What a time to be alive!

  • @Kayaz48
    @Kayaz48 2 роки тому

    Just brilliant design. But I’m curious why they didn’t mention the bone ground up in the heat shield used because of its heat reflective properties.

  • @evorioss
    @evorioss 6 років тому

    Angular diameter of Sun will be 12° in closest point. Not 90° as you could to think.

  • @kironmoyeeburagohainsaikia8067
    @kironmoyeeburagohainsaikia8067 6 років тому +1

    I love it😀😀😀😀😀😀

  • @xRundeLoL
    @xRundeLoL 2 роки тому

    Congratulations

  • @milsoncastro
    @milsoncastro 6 років тому

    En mí opinión sólo una órbita,en la segunda muerte sistema...es para 2022..

  • @Thincpad
    @Thincpad 2 роки тому

    What's the flame temperature incident on the carbon foam you're showing? And it's about one million degrees centigrade in corona so how does this carbon foam respond to million degrees centigrade temperature?

    • @SciNewsRo
      @SciNewsRo  2 роки тому

      At closest approach, the probe is “coming within 5.3 million miles (8.5 million kilometers) of the solar surface.”

  • @dailywild253
    @dailywild253 6 років тому

    Dad be like “fake don’t watch these stuff it Melt it”

  • @milsoncastro
    @milsoncastro 6 років тому

    En mí opinión ésa placa es magnetica de alta densidad.. para rechazar el campo solar.

  • @robertbilling6266
    @robertbilling6266 6 років тому +3

    Great job! Is that heat shield material descended from the tiles on the shuttle?

  • @betotusso
    @betotusso Рік тому

    😍😍😍😍👏

  • @ARTCELLENCY
    @ARTCELLENCY 6 років тому +1

    Okat

  • @johnperkins8895
    @johnperkins8895 6 років тому

    Bogus
    Should be solar powered

  • @Mumbo_Jumbo_Kiwi.1
    @Mumbo_Jumbo_Kiwi.1 6 років тому

    It doesn't have to be rocket science 😐

  • @beachboardfan9544
    @beachboardfan9544 6 років тому

    Is it a better insulator than aerogel? Or its just better at high temps?

    • @bennemann
      @bennemann 6 років тому +4

      My guess is that aerogel's insulation is based on air being trapped inside the gel lattice, and in the vacuum of space that air would seep out, rendering the gel useless. Thus, they need a material whose insulation is not based on trapped air.

  • @peterkuzmin8624
    @peterkuzmin8624 3 роки тому

    why not aerogel?

  • @SanketDube
    @SanketDube 6 років тому

    What would be the angular diameter of sun when the Parker Probe is at perihelion?

    • @SanketDube
      @SanketDube 6 років тому

      Okay now that I have some time... getting back to my own question....
      So using small angle formula:
      Given:
      Dist = Distance from probe to sun = 6,000,000 Kms.
      Dia = Diameter of Sun = 1,392,784 Kms.
      Pi = 3.14159
      Find:
      Theta = Angular Diameter from probe.
      Dia / Dist = Theta / ( 180 / Pi )
      1,392,784 / 6,000,000 = Theta / ( 180 / 3.14159 )
      0.2321306666666667 = Theta / 57.29582790879777
      13.300188 = Theta = Angular Diameter from probe = 798 arcminutes
      Woahh!!!!! 798 arcminutes is HUGE!!
      Hypothetically if you could safely sit on Parker Probe when it's closes to the sun and look at the sun; the sun would look as big as your fist on extended arm.
      Just wow!

    • @stan.rarick8556
      @stan.rarick8556 6 років тому

      That doesn't seem to be that big (to me).
      Distance to sun about 1/24th AU

  • @prathameshgadgil9546
    @prathameshgadgil9546 6 років тому

    Great parkar solar prob video

  • @UhhKhakis
    @UhhKhakis 6 років тому

    Are we getting pictures of the sun from this probe?

    • @SciNewsRo
      @SciNewsRo  6 років тому

      Parker Solar Probe explained in detail ua-cam.com/video/zJo0tIxNLxU/v-deo.html

    • @UhhKhakis
      @UhhKhakis 6 років тому +1

      SciNews Thanks

  • @srinivaskari
    @srinivaskari 6 років тому

    superb explanation

  • @isay9830
    @isay9830 6 років тому

    Good for building material

    • @stan.rarick8556
      @stan.rarick8556 6 років тому

      Not cost effective for that application, I would think

  • @andrekoscianski
    @andrekoscianski 6 років тому

    International Units, please!

    • @SciNewsRo
      @SciNewsRo  6 років тому

      Provided in the description

  • @TheGolfdaily
    @TheGolfdaily 5 років тому

    Excellent!! 👍

  • @naveenreddy9035
    @naveenreddy9035 2 роки тому

    👌👌🎉

  • @alphajorbah246
    @alphajorbah246 6 років тому

    Good job guys

  • @milsoncastro
    @milsoncastro 6 років тому

    En mí opinión ésa placa es magnetica de alta densidad.. para rechazar el campo solar.ay dos fuerzas directa.

    • @kuro13wolf
      @kuro13wolf 6 років тому +1

      Are you even real? Escribes como un robot, no se te entiende.

  • @melchorcollado7446
    @melchorcollado7446 6 років тому

    Mga kano talaga ano gustong patunayan sabayan ang talino ng diyos, naku po naman di mabubuhay ang tao sa araw.

    • @charlesa6434
      @charlesa6434 6 років тому

      Marami tayo matututunan sa ginagawa ng mga engineers tsaka scientists ng NASA. Hindi naman nila hinahabol ang talino ng 'diyos' na tinutukoy mo. Mas marami tayong matututunan sa pagaaaral ng mga stars kesa sa pagbabasa ng bibliya.

    • @MikeUnderTown
      @MikeUnderTown 2 роки тому

      ikaw nga wala pang napapatunayan eh lakas mo maka ano.