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Satellites orbiting the Sun | HearLore
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Satellites orbiting the Sun
Parker Solar ProbeIn 1958, the Fields and Particles Group of the National Academy of Sciences' Space Science Board proposed a mission to send a probe inside Mercury's orbit.
Deep Impact (spacecraft)A comet-impact mission first appeared on NASA's desk in 1996. Engineers at the agency were skeptical that a probe could hit such a moving target.