10 June 2016
Intelsat 31 Telecommunications Satellite Successfully Placed in Orbit
... its initial launch date due to an issue associated with electrical ground system equipment at Launch Pad 24. The Proton booster that launched Intelsat 31 is 4.1 m (13.5 ft) in diameter along its second and third stages, with a first stage diameter...
12 March 2018
Satellite-servicing space drones set for launch in 2020
... affordable launch solutions and our agreement with Effective Space is a perfect example of that. The performance of the Proton Breeze M vehicle to deliver the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft directly to geostationary orbit combined with our decades-long...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
...the tenuous solar plasma that it is made of charged particles (protons and electrons) and can reach temperatures of a few million degrees...sis”— uses two complementary instruments to measure electrons, protons and ions, across a wide range of energies ...
06 December 2019
Parker Solar Probe reveals major new insights on the Sun
... engineering at the University of Michigan who serves as principal investigator for Parker's Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instrument suite. "So we are missing something fundamental about the sun, and how the solar wind...
October 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
... ground-based instrumentation placed in polar regions. The trapped particles that constitute the Van Allen belts (protons and electrons) pose a serious risk to satellites because of their effects on sensitive electronic components. This risk was...
April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... ISS. Radiation carried by the solar wind is considered to be low hazard. It produces a constant flux of low energy electrons, protons and alpha particles which are effectively nullified by the shell of a space vehicle. Solar particle events are...
