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From the Moon to the Sun: India launches next space mission
Sep 02, 2023 (AFP)
Aditya-L1 launched shortly before midday, with a live broadcast showing hundreds of spectators cheering wildly against the deafening noise of the rocket's ascen...
After Moon landing, India eyes the Sun
Aug 28, 2023 (AFP)
"The launch of Aditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun, is scheduled for September 2," the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO...
PILOTing through the magnetosphere: Using mission design to advance science
Aug 25, 2023 (SPX)
To measure these flows in real time requires a fleet of 34 satellites revolving around the Earth in two different orbits to capture plasma movement at different...
Durable Parker Solar Probe going strong after first five years
Aug 16, 2023 (SPX)
Designs for a "Solar Probe" started coming together in 1962, just four years after the National Research Council's Space Studies Board first proposed a mission ...
Seventeen years later satellite return home for first time
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
The twin STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft launched on Oct. 25, 2006, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. STEREO-A (...
Giant solar eruption felt on Earth, Moon and Mars
Aug 04, 2023 (ESA)
This marks the first time that a solar event was measured simultaneously on the surfaces of Earth, the Moon and Mars, as reported in a Geographical Research Let...
MSU scientists help discover the highest-energy light coming from the sun
Aug 04, 2023 (SPX)
"The sun is more surprising than we knew," said Mehr Un Nisa, a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University. "We thought we had this star figur...
Heat waves on the Sun
Aug 01, 2023 (SPX)
One of the long-standing astrophysical puzzles is exactly this coronal heating problem. From a young age, we are taught that temperature decreases as you move a...
Space storms could cause chaos without forecast developments
Jul 28, 2023 (SPX)
Nine in ten space weather experts said that without accurate forecasting of space weather, Earth would suffer serious damage to its infrastructure. Of the 144 s...
NASA funds 3 citizen science projects to study 2024 US solar eclipse
Jul 27, 2023 (SPX)
"During next year's total eclipse, hundreds of volunteers will capture images of the Sun and its corona to help answer real science question about our star and ...
Studying solar flares and sunspots can help protect Earth
Jul 19, 2023 (SPX)
Telegraph systems around the world - essential for communication at the time - began to fail as fires sparked and telegraph poles toppled, plunging the "Victori...
Muon Space awarded additional funding from AFLMC and DIU to collect space weather data
Jul 13, 2023 (SPX)
The performance period for this contract is two years extending through September 2024. This is an optional expansion in scope to the original contract awarded ...
Sino-European joint space mission enters flight model phase
Jul 11, 2023 (XNA)
After a four-day discussion and consultation, the review experts unanimously agreed that SMILE has successfully passed the critical design review, marking an im...
Parker Solar Probe completes 16th close approach to the Sun
Jul 04, 2023 (SPX)
During this orbit, the spacecraft executed a close approach or perihelion on June 22, 2023, approaching within a distance of 5.3 million miles from the solar su...
Scientists are using deepfake AI images to understand the Sun's atmosphere
Jul 04, 2023 (SPX)
For more than 80 years, solar physicists have been trying to understand how and why the upper reaches of the Sun's atmosphere (the corona) are unexpectedly hott...
Solar astronomers discover 'shooting stars' on the Sun's corona
Jul 04, 2023 (SPX)
Although not real water, coronal rain is a condensation process in which some of the Sun's fiery material clumps together due to sudden, localised temperature d...
A simulation finds solutions to a central mystery in space physics
Jun 30, 2023 (SPX)
Rapid plasma eruptions known as plasmoids take place on the nightside of the magnetosphere. Plasmoids are also associated with the sudden brightening of the aur...
NASA selects 5 experiments for 2024 total solar eclipse
Jun 21, 2023 (SPX)
NASA will fund five interdisciplinary science projects for the 2024 eclipse to make the most of this opportunity. The projects, which are led by researchers at ...
Sun-watching Proba-3 formation flyers tested for take-off
Jun 16, 2023 (ESA)
Proba-3 is made up of two satellites being launched together into orbit for a single mission. The pair will fly in precise formation relative to one another to ...
Scientists report 'benchmarks' for extreme space weather
Jun 16, 2023 (SPX)
Dr Nigel Meredith of BAS led an international team who analysed 20 years of data from a US GPS satellite to determine the 1 in 10, 1 in 50, and 1 in 100-year ev...
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