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NASA's Parker Solar Probe will be launched in August 2018. The probe's heat shield is called the Thermal Protection System or TPS. It was reinstalled on the spacecraft on 27th June 2018. The reinstallation of the heat shield was attached to the spacecraft during testing in 2017. This mission has been in the making for 60 years. Parker Solar Probe will travel to the Sun's corona, a region of the solar atmosphere. The spacecraft's orbit will carry it to within 4 million miles of the Sun's surface with the help of its heat shield. There the spacecraft will collect data about the inner workings of the corona.