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...
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...
24 January 2022
Solar sail mission will intercept and study small asteroid
...CubeSat called NEA Scout will use a thin, aluminum-coated solar sail about the size of a tennis court to propel ... Artemis I uncrewed test flight this spring, the sail will use solar radiation to propel the CubeSat to the asteroid, estimated to be ths...
10 February 2022
SpaceX Starlink satellites fall out of sky after storm
...SpaceX caused by an unexpected sting in the tail from a solar storm might also have been exacerbated by a design error or quality ...SpaceX. Geomagnetic storms are the result of interactions between solar wind - a stream of charged particles from the sun -...
