Washington: NASA's Parker Solar Probe Just 161 days after its launch has completed its first orbit of the Sun and has now begun the second of 24 planned orbits, which will mark its closest approach to the Sun in April.

As source report , the Parker Solar Probe Launched on August 12, , NASA's historic small car-sized probe, will journey progressively closer to the Sun, until it makes its closest approach at 3.8 million miles. Throughout its mission, the probe will make six more Venus gravity assists and 24 total passes by the Sun. as per  NASA said in a statement The spacecraft completed its first orbit of the Sun, reaching the point in its orbit farthest from our star, called aphelion.

Andy Driesman, Project Manager at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory said that"It's been an illuminating and fascinating first orbit," It has now begun the second of 24 planned orbits, on track for its second perihelion, or closest approach to the Sun, on April 4, 2019. Driesman added that  "We've learned a lot about how the spacecraft operates and reacts to the solar environment, and I'm proud to say the team's projections have been very accurate,". Parker Solar Probe entered full operational status (known as Phase E) on January 1, with all systems online and operating as designed.

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The spacecraft has been delivering data from its instruments to Earth via the Deep Space Network, and to date, more than 17 gigabits of science data has been downloaded. The full dataset from the first orbit will be downloaded by April. The spacecraft's four instrument suites will help scientists begin to answer outstanding questions about the Sun's fundamental physics -- including how particles and solar material are accelerated out into space at such high speeds and why the Sun's atmosphere, the corona, is so much hotter than the surface below.

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