March 2015
Space weather: the public & policy
... eruption on 16 April 16 2012 captured here by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Such events contribute to space weather Thus the Space Weather Public Dialogue is complementing and supporting the wider development of UK policies for mitigating the...
25 November 2015
Russian research scientist and mathematician recognized for space weather research
... International Alexander Chizhevsky Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate, as part of the 12th European Space Weather Week which opened in Belgium this week. Space weather forecasts are an integral part in planning space missions, not only that...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... telephone communications, direct-broadcast TV and weather satellites, and for military missions including ... such monitoring missions may help to provide warning of extreme space weather events generated by the Sun. Debris problem Fifty years ...
June 2014
In thrall to a star: understanding the Sun will help us understand our own climate and environment
... an assessment of the United States’ “capacity to monitor and forecast potentially harmful space weather” and the UK government unveiled a forecasting initiative for space weather to “help protect the technologies our day-to-day lives depend on”. The...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
...to climate and weather, and have practical applications in many different areas such as space weather and radiation hazards.... datasets for operational services. Sentinel-1: This polar-orbiting, all-weather, day-and-night mission will enable a SAR in C...
11 July 2018
High hopes for Hi-C mission to reveal secrets of the Sun
...hour. These space weather events, when directed at Earth, can affect not only just our weather but the...Amy Winebarger, principal investigator for the Hi-C mission at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “By studying how the Sun ...
