16 September 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
... process NOAA are launching a Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO) satellite designed to make direct, in-situ, measurements of the solar wind thermal plasma and magnetic field “up-stream” of the Earth. This will help scientists to provide warnings about...
10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
... (NOAA) are also launching a Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO) satellite designed to make direct, in-situ, measurements of the solar wind thermal plasma and magnetic field “up-stream” of the Earth. This will help provide warnings about potential...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... from there about how the building blocks of our solar system formed By carrying very sensitive instruments for the ... studying the interaction of the comet with its environment (the solar wind), will give us a much better understanding of: how comets...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
...characterise the speed, density and magnetic properties of solar wind streams as they pass L5 – typically reaching Earth ...the Southwest Research Institute (US), it will monitor the middle solar corona for early signs of flare or CME activity Compact ...
31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
.... His work describes an entire complex system of magnetic fields, plasmas and energetic particles that make up the solar wind phenomenon. Accordingly, NASA has dedicated its latest mission in honour of Parker’s accomplishments within the field. “This...
May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
... seek to understand the nature, origin and history of our solar system.” As research expanded to include other planets, satellites, asteroids... samples from the Moon, asteroids, comets, the solar wind and cosmic dust. LPI has long supported community ...
