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I'm Felipe Ruiz and this is Solar 60

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The Parker Solar Probe spacecraft is
continuing its testing at Goddard Space

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Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland. We
are lifting the spacecraft and the TPS

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simulator into the space environment
simulator SES to start the thermal

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balance testing.

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The spacecraft and the TPS simulator are
now safely in the SES. Goddard

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technicians have closed the dome on the
chamber. We'll spend the next few days

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getting all the cables, thermocouples and
other hardware require to support the

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test. I'm here with Jack Ercol, lead
thermal engineer for Parker Solar Probe.

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Jack, what's gonna happen during the test?

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For the next seven weeks we'll be

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simulating space environments that are
equivalent to those experienced during

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the mission for Parker Solar Probe. Those
environments will range between hot and

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cold that will be measured with 400
thermocouples located on the spacecraft

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and those temperatures will verify the
design as well as the operation during

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the extremes it will experience.

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Thanks Jack. That's it from Goddard Space Flight

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Center - I'm Felipe Ruiz and this is Solar
60