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...
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 ...
31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
... Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Nonetheless, as a recent study by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that a huge solar event could cause two trillion dollars in damage in the US alone without any prior warning, data collected...
03 January 2020
China tests mini solar sail in space
...China's Liaoning province, announced that the nation’s first solar sail based craft, SIASAIL-I, is currently whizzing through ...since 2011. Like its other LightSail companion in space, the solar sail is powered by the reflected light pressure of the ...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
...both the craft and comet. Packed on board Solar Orbiter is a Solar Wind Plasma Analyzer (SWA). This instrument will be...the American Astronomical Society. All eyes will now be on Solar Orbiter and if the spacecraft’s instruments do detect material from...
