January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...radius where the solar wind is accelerated and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are initiated. But this part of the... corresponding Occulter Spacecraft (OSC) which includes the occulting disk. OSC wet mass is about 250 kg, with a size of about 1.4 m x 1.1...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
...perhaps 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...
10 February 2022
SpaceX Starlink satellites fall out of sky after storm
... drag” that was up to 50 percent higher than during previous launches,” it claimed. Two days before the launch a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field, though it was not categorised as a major space weather event. In fact, according...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
...temperature to improve our understanding of the solar wind and coronal plasma. The FIELDS instrument suite captures the scale and shape... images from afar of large-scale structures like coronal mass ejections (CMEs), jets and other ejecta from the Sun....
