NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission is a historic project. PSP will go closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft before. It will come as close as 6.16 million kilometers to the visible surface of the Sun and will provide the first ever direct measurements of its outer atmosphere, the solar corona.
The CGAUSS project is funded by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) under grant 50OL2301 as the national contribution to the Parker Solar Probe mission.
The WISPR project is led by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington DC, USA with Dr. Mark Linton as Principal Investigator (PI). The former PI was Dr. Russell A. Howard with Deputy PI and Project Scientist Dr. Angelos Vourlidas, now both at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA.
