July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... (ESA). The initial mission, which was dedicated to the study of interactions between solar winds and terrestrial magnetosphere, was soon followed by two additional Cluster II satellites on 9 August. Three years later, another ESA mission, Mars...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
...poles, are increasingly at risk of being greatly diminished. ESA’s Swarm mission satellites are designed to measure Earth’s magnetosphere. These satellites confirm what we had begun to suspect - that Earth’s magnetic poles are apparently in a process...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
... seven as the most dangerous threats: Solar storms and flares, known as coronal mass ejections. Changes in Earth’s magnetosphere which result in the destruction of the protective shield that could deflect coronal mass ejections. Potentially dangerous...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
... (MOSIF), which provides thermal protection, and the mechanical and electrical interfaces for the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), a spinning spacecraft provided by JAXA. It will carry a payload of five advanced scientific experiments, including...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... the subsurface ocean of Europa. Another proposed by Robert Ebert of the Southwest Research Institute is the JUpiter MagnetosPheric boundary ExploreR (JUMPER), a SmallSat to study Jupiter’s magnetic field, including its interaction with the solar...
October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... of a post-mission disposal module for Earth-orbiting satellites, and the study of particle motion in the Earth’s magnetosphere.
