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This one page document gives some key facts about the Parker Solar Probe. Its Solar Probe Cup was built at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Researchers use a quartet of IMAX projectors to create the light and heat the Parker Solar Probe cup will experience during its trips through the sun's atmosphere. The cup sits inside a vacuum chambers set up in a lab at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PSP in the clean room, with a close-up view of the SPC in the inset. The location of the SPC on the probe, as it peers around the heat shield, is also shown.

Getting ready to put the Solar Probe Cup (SPC) on the Parker Solar Probe (PSP)! Pictured left to right: Chris Scholz (University of California Berkeley), Anthony (Tony) Case (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, SPC Instrument Scientist), Kelly Korreck (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, SWEAP Head of Science Operations)