The operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) received a tone from the spacecraft just before midnight (EST) on December 26 to indicate the vehicle was in good health and operating normally.
Parker Solar Probe 'touches' our star at much closer distances than Solar Orbiter, to study how the solar wind originates - but does not have cameras to view the Sun directly.
The flyby is the closest any human-made probe has passed the Sun. Or, as XKCD put it, "Congratulations to the Parker Solar Probe for setting a new record for 'Worst Job Avoiding The Sun.'"
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