August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
... with a leading magnetic field anti-aligned for a long interval. It seems safe to say that the resulting geomagnetic storm would have been devastating to more than sea mines. We have an armada of ground-based and space-based...
April 2025
Life in the Sun’s atmosphere - the looming threat of solar storms
... it’s quite a complex picture and the key is planning mitigation measures before you are experiencing an event.” Geomagnetic storms are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, with G5 being the most extreme. At this level, blackouts or a complete collapse of the...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
... that destructive coronal mass ejections are rare events. A geomagnetic storm in March 1989, the so-called ‘Montreal event’, took...global space governance Reorganising space agencies One massive solar storm in the form of a giant coronal mass ejection ...
July 2014
In thrall to a star: understanding the Sun will help us understand our own climate and environment
... on a wide variety of timescales: seconds and minutes in solar flares; hours and days in coronal mass ejections and geomagnetic storms; years and decades in sunspot production; yet centuries and millennia in its global energy generation. Some of this...
April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
...anomaly after the launch. Surprisingly, major solar or geomagnetic storm activity did not directly account for any insurance loss... was also noted that, while the effect of solar/geomagnetic events were not the primary cause of insurance loss anomalies...
26 November 2015
Russian research scientist and mathematician recognized for space weather research
...-bourne equipment is likely to malfunction due to conditions such as solar storms. Dr. Podladchikova’s research aims to tackle these problems and provide answers ...Dr Podladchikova's research is to help develop a method to forecast geomagnetic storms.
