31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
... any prior warning, data collected from the Parker Probe will also help improve forecasts of major space-weather events that impact life on our planet. The mission, which is part of NASA’s Living With a Star program...
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...
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...
October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... the objective of avoiding collisions”, SSA has three specific purposes: providing space surveillance and tracking of space debris (objects) that circle Earth; providing space weather reports (see next section); and detecting near Earth objects that...
10 February 2022
SpaceX Starlink satellites fall out of sky after storm
... a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field, though it was not categorised as a major space weather event. In fact, according to the space weather website (spaceweather.com) the weak impact did not at first even spark any remarkable...
