Solar Probe Plus, JHU/APL's next NASA Living With the
Star mission, will come closer to the Sun than any
spacecraft has ever flown. Solar Probe Plus will study the
streams of charged particles the Sun hurls into space from
an unprecedented vantage point which lies inside the Sun's
corona, its outer atmosphere, where the processes that heat
the corona and produce solar wind occur [3]. Solar Probe
Plus has a planned launch in the summer of 2018 and the
SSRV program will commence in fall of 2014.