February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
...are dealing with cosmic fire. A spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) erupts from the Sun’s solar corona releasing plasma and ...per cent chance of a major solar coronal mass ejection (CME) catastrophic event within the next decade. For the longer ...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...provide insight on the inner corona where solar wind and CMEs originate. Enabling new science capabilities Since the Sun is ... where the solar wind is accelerated and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are initiated. But this part of the solar corona is...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... may ultimately help us to find ways to imitate those responses in humans. A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted into space on 28-29 April 2015. CMEs are sometimes followed by a wave of high-energy particles that can be dangerous to astronauts and...
10 February 2022
SpaceX Starlink satellites fall out of sky after storm
... it claimed. Two days before the launch a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field, though it was not categorised as a... activity. However, as Earth passed through the CME's wake, some sputtering G1-class geomagnetic storms developed...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
... Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) takes images from afar of large-scale structures like coronal mass ejections (CMEs), jets and other ejecta from the Sun. With radiation-hardened Active Pixel Sensor CMOS detectors...
01 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest
... U.S. intelligence community. Orbital Insight’s Series B investment round was led by GV (formerly known as Google Ventures). New investor CME Ventures joined Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital and Bloomberg Beta, investment firms that already were backing...
