BRAVO: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe phones home after surviving historic close sun flyby. It’s alive! “The spacecraft is programmed to send home a more detailed status update on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1. It’s only then that scientists will know whether the spacecraft indeed collected the expected observations of the sun from the flyby, Michael Buckley, a spokesperson at JHUAPL, which oversees the Parker Solar Probe mission, told Space.com in an email. ‘This gives the team a better picture of overall spacecraft and subsystem/instrument health, including whether Parker’s data recorders are full.'”