10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... – in which our planet resides.” We are all Solar Orbiters Solar Orbiter will be one of two complementary spacecraft studying the... its extended atmosphere,” says Holly Gilbert, NASA Solar Orbiter Project Scientist. “The powerful combination of ...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
... and communication? It could be the result of a cyber attack, or it could also be the result of a severe geomagnetic storm due to solar activity. Even if the probability of the latter is low, it should not be totally ignored. For the asset management...
10 August 2018
Fiery inferno awaits NASA's Parker Solar Probe
... with four instrument suites designed to study plasma, magnetic fields, energetic particles, and image the solar wind. The Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons investigation, or SWEAP, will gather data on the most abundant particles...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
... simulation training, the European Space Agency’s mission control is counting down the hours to the launch of their Solar Orbiter mission. Scheduled for launch Monday 10 February 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on top of an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... the size of a European country, said mission scientists in a press conference yesterday. The ‘campfires’ were detected with Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, or EUI instrument, which takes high-resolution images of the lower layers of the...
25 November 2020
Solar astronomers "listening" to the Sun can now predict future sunspots
... a finding that can help mitigate the effects of powerful solar storms that have the potential to disrupt satellites in orbit... surges that lead to black outs. Presently, the US National Solar Observatory provides “eyes on the Sun” all day every day ...
