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...
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...
October 2015
Space debris, Kessler Syndrome, and the unreasonable expectation of certainty
... that can affect the trajectory of a satellite, including the orientation of the satellite, whether it is tumbling, and space weather (which can affect the amount of drag experienced by satellites). Even small errors in the initial values of these...
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...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
...for important constituents, including hydrogen, oxygen and carbon. This includes the effects of solar activity and ‘space weather’ on escape rates, thought to be a potential missing link in accounting for larger early losses under a more active young...
