November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
...) on the other hand, will study the gaseous interaction between Mercury’s surface, exosphere, magnetosphere and the solar wind and interplanetary medium. A further seven instruments–MGNS (Mercury Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer), MIXS (Mercury...
June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
...Canada, suffered an electrical power blackout casued by a solar storm. Although considerably less powerful than the Carrington ...colleagues. Such a system could also help to prevent the solar wind from stripping away the atmosphere on Mars, to help ...
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...
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 -...
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...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
...three components to SSA: space weather: monitoring solar activity such as solar wind, etc, which can affect space-borne infrastructure... to post-mission disposal manoeuvres using drag sails, solar sails, or some inflatable structure that increases the ...
