August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
...support for launching a new and much needed climate and space weather monitoring satellite revived the debate over Triana in 2011, ...Ship and goods tracking, animal tracking and passive weather data gathering are all poised for incredible improvements....
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
..., 2016, pp 11-15. 4 Joseph N. Pelton, “Protecting Earth and A Better Way to Mars” Space Safety Magazine January 13, 2016 5 http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-hazards/space-weather/protecting-earth-and-a-better-way-to-mars/(last accessed March...
21 July 2015
“EPIC” Earth from NASA and DSCOVR: Stunning image taken from a million miles away
...’s main mission is to maintain real-time solar wind monitoring capabilities, in order to produce more accurate and timely space weather alerts from NOAA. What’s particularly amazing about the image is that it is taken from a million miles away...
20 January 2016
Our view of Van Allen belts set to be revolutionised by new data from NASA probes
... belts consist of a small, inner belt, a largely-empty space known as the slot region, and then a large, dynamic outer... help us understand how radiation belts evolve during extreme space weather events,” said project scientist Sasha Ukhorskiy, in an ...
06 December 2019
Parker Solar Probe reveals major new insights on the Sun
... predict," said Justin Kasper, a professor of climate and space sciences and engineering at the University of Michigan who serves ... the solar wind escapes. This has huge implications. Space weather forecasting will need to account for these flows if ...
April 2025
Spacecraft anomalies and insurance losses
... point. Although most insurance loss events happen either at launch or during the first year of a spacecraft’s life, space weather events can complicate this trend. As shown in Figure 3, by measuring the insurance loss rate relative to the platform...
