October 2019
Electric orbit raising and space weather
...allow satellite operators to minimise the radiation dose absorbed by solar cells by optimising the transfer orbit. The use of ...onboard spacecraft, as well as how changes during a solar cycle affect the overall behaviour of the Van Allen belts and...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... a press conference yesterday. The ‘campfires’ were detected with Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, or EUI instrument, which takes ...Right now, we are in the part of the 11-year solar cycle when the Sun is very quiet,” says Sami Solanki, the...
October 2018
Radiation study paves way for safe deep space exploration
... between the amount of GCR radiation and the SPE occurrence probability due to the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle. During periods of maximum solar activity, SPE occurrence is more likely, but GCR radiation is deflected by the increased strength of the...
16 November 2020
Venus didn't lose water to space, new study says
... greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet in our solar system. The few glimpses that scientists have been able ... Whats more, the number of escaping protons varies over the solar cycle. “In my thesis I have calculated how much water has escaped...
15 December 2020
NOAA launches Crowdsourcing competition for better forecasting of magnetic field
... use and learning by the community. “As we enter the next solar cycle and the navigation technologies we rely on everyday are always advancing, ...a space scientist and the lead of the NCEI Solar & Terrestrial Physics Section, NOAA National Centers for ...
20 January 2016
Our view of Van Allen belts set to be revolutionised by new data from NASA probes
...prone to alteration when they interact with high-speed solar wind streams or coronal mass ejections emanating from ... measuring," said Reeves. As the declining phase of the solar cycle approaches, researchers have learned that this is often when the ...
