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Parker Solar Probe is the fastest human made object

It reached about 690,000 kilometres per hour during a close pass Parker Solar Probe uses repeated flybys of Venus to shrink its orbit until it skims within about 6 million kilometres of the Sun's surface. At closest approach in 2024 it reached roughly 690,000 kilometres per hour, the fastest speed ever achieved by a human made object. Its heat shield faces temperatures near 1,400 degrees Celsius while the instruments stay near room temperature. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: It reached about 690,000 kilometres per hour during a close pass. The figure is taken from NASA, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.