January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... a sophisticated electronic infrastructure that is highly vulnerable to cosmic dangers. Solar storms and especially coronal mass ejections (CMEs) can destroy electrical grids, telecommunication systems, pipelines, industrial control systems that run...
October 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
... During a radiation storm, high-energy charged particles ejected by the Sun can stream into the Earth’s ... of plasma are expelled from the Sun towards Earth in a coronal mass ejection, driving a shock wave. The Combined Release and Radiation Effects ...
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...
02 February 2018
Joe Pelton honoured for contribution to space safety
... the effects of the Earth’s diminishing natural shielding provided by the Earth’s magnetosphere, preventing a major blast of coronal mass ejected ions from the Sun from destroying the Earth’s electronic grid, pipelines, satellites and communications...
December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
... and its protective magnetic field, so the astronauts’ exposure to dangerous ionising radiation will occur. Solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and cosmic rays will threaten the astronauts’ acceptable radiation level, with the increased risk...
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 ...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 ...
