10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
Space weather experts are predicting that two violent eruptions of solar radiation blasted out from the sun 9 May, are heading to Earth and Mars in what is being called the largest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25 yet. The Earth-bound eruption has been...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... voyage and for thousands of years humans have remained blissfully ignorant of the dangers of asteroids and comets, coronal mass ejections, solar radiation flares and other cosmic events that threaten our daily existence. The Global Space...
July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... following: Create an artificial Van Allen ‘electro-magnetic shield’ that could protect Earth against a major solar coronal mass ejection that could otherwise have a crippling impact on the global economy and risk injury, illness or death to perhaps...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... Sun decided to frighten us, blinding the Rosetta Star Trackers by flooding them with charged particles from a large coronal mass ejection event. Both problems occurred when Rosetta was out of radio contact, and we just about managed to quickly...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
.... Although such a major event is predicted to occur only every 150 years or so, this is not to suggest that destructive coronal mass ejections are rare events. A geomagnetic storm in March 1989, the so-called ‘Montreal event’, took out power between...
February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... threats we need to start taking quite seriously. In a very real sense we are dealing with cosmic fire. A spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) erupts from the Sun’s solar corona releasing plasma and magnetic field. The National Intelligence...
