25 November 2020
Solar astronomers "listening" to the Sun can now predict future sunspots
... that can help mitigate the effects of powerful solar storms that have the potential to disrupt satellites in orbit... the starting point for solar storms, especially if the sunspot is large and complicated. Solar storms involve the sudden releases...
26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
... one another constantly, and when merged with solar activity, coalesce to affect communications and navigation around...disruptions. Similarly, when the Sun’s surface erupts in solar flares, flurries of energised particles make their way towards ...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
The concept of a ‘Moon village’, introduced in 2016 by Director General of the European Space Agency, Jan Wörner, isn’t an active project or a space programme in the traditional sense. Rather, it represents an intention or vision for spaceflight and...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
...with the much-more-likely threat of a massive solar storm that destroys our satellites, the Internet, digital telecommunications ...in addressing issues of asteroid and comet threats, solar storms and orbital space debris, military and defence concerns ...
10 February 2022
SpaceX Starlink satellites fall out of sky after storm
... loss of around 40 of the 49 Starlink satellites launched last week by SpaceX caused by an unexpected sting in the tail from a solar storm might also have been exacerbated by a design error or quality control issue. Space analyst David Todd, of the...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... we understand the multiple threats posed to our planet and life on Earth from such things as climate breakdown, solar storms, space debris and asteroid impacts. In this article Dr Joseph Pelton, a passionate advocate of using space systems to help...
