[Boudica]

I don't recall if the article mentioned specifically how close they're intending to get. I did read that it can go up to 5x hotter than the boiling point of water, but I'm not sure how that translates to distance from the sun.

Does the comment below mean the probe will make Its way to the sun Itself? Due to the extreme heat, wouldn't It disintegrate?

The probe is currently on a three year mission to get to the sun

That's what I'm unsure about. I don't know how close or not it's intended to go. However, when NASA etc send these things out into space, they rarely if ever plan for them to return to Earth.

I wonder how many probs and pieces of tech like this are floating in the dead of space somewhere far away.