June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
... the United States’ National Academy of Sciences produced a study called “The Societal and Economic Impact of Severe Space Weather”. The panel looked at past events and estimated what a severe geomagnetic storm would do to global infrastructure. They...
August 2019
Lessons from the Sun
..., nowcast and forecast potentially dangerous solar events, ESA has initiated the assessment of two possible future space weather missions, positioning spacecraft in orbit at the Sun-Earth L1 and L5 Lagrange points. About the author Dr Delores Knipp...
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...
23 December 2020
Harmful stellar flares might not prevent life on exoplanets after all, new study says
... events are typically viewed as a detriment to habitability," Chen said. "But our study quantitatively shows that some space weather can actually help us detect signatures of important gases that might signify biological processes." The team’s study...
24 September 2025
Cybersecurity, cosmic weather and Europa’s secrets
... system. Closer to home, ROOM continues its tradition of in-depth reporting on Europe’s space ambitions. Simpson also covers Vigil, ESA’s planned space weather mission at the strategically important L5 Lagrange point, which is expected to gain the...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... the amount of debris over time, and making it much more difficult to safely launch new satellites or missions to space. Space weather also plays a part in spacecraft failure, likely resulting in more orbital debris. Single event upsets, solar storms...
