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Parker Solar Probe completes a record-setting swing by the Sun
Nov 29, 2021 (SPX)
The close approach (known as perihelion), also at a record distance, occurred at 4:25 a.m. EST (8:25 UTC), with Parker Solar Probe moving 364,660 miles per hour...
Solar Orbiter returns to Earth before starting its main science mission
Nov 19, 2021 (ESA)
Solar Orbiter's Earth flyby takes place on 27 November. At 04:30 GMT (05:30 CET) on that day, the spacecraft will be at its closest approach, just 460 km above ...
Sino-Russian center for space weather monitoring operational
Nov 18, 2021 (XNA)
The China-Russia Consortium Global Space Weather Center monitors space weather events including solar activities and releases advisories for aviation operators,...
Space dust presents opportunities, challenges as Parker Solar Probe speeds towards Sun
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
Parker Solar Probe will break its own distance and speed records on that approach - the 10th of 24 planned, progressively closer trips around the Sun - when it ...
Research casts new light on processes behind solar eruptions
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
The answer could help to develop a better understanding of the space weather caused by radiation ejected from the surface of the sun during periods of solar act...
Blue Canyon Technologies selected by Ball Aerospace to supply spacecraft bus for NASA Solar Cruiser Program
Nov 16, 2021 (SPX)
As the largest planned solar sail to date, the 18,000 square-foot sail is a third the size of a football field. The Solar Cruiser: "Sailing on Sunlight" mission...
Micro-scale current sheets unleash macro-scale space weather
Nov 09, 2021 (SPX)
During solar storms, however, the solar wind can compress the Earth's magnetic field, causing the magnetic field lines to rearrange and reconnect (also known as...
SwRI-Led cubesat to assess the origins of hot plasma in the Sun's corona
Nov 02, 2021 (SPX)
Concentrations of strong and complicated magnetic fields at the surface of the Sun are called "active regions." These regions frequently spawn strong solar acti...
Pathfinding experiment to study origins of solar energetic particles
Oct 26, 2021 (SPX)
UVSC Pathfinder - short for Ultraviolet Spectro-Coronagraph Pathfinder - will hitch a ride to space aboard STPSat-6, the primary spacecraft of the Space Test Pr...
Final solar eclipse of 2022 happening this morning
Oct 25, 2021 (UPI)
The partial eclipse is the second of the year and began at about 4:48 a.m. ET with the moon beginning to overlap with the sun. At its peak, about 82%-86% of the...
Major step in UK contribution to space mission to study solar wind
Oct 25, 2021 (SPX)
The model, which has now been delivered to Airbus in Spain for integration and testing within the prototype satellite system, is not the so-called flight model ...
Increased aurora activity herald a new solar cycle
Oct 25, 2021 (SPX)
The scene above is a mosaic of several satellite passes showing auroras over eastern North America, the North Atlantic, and Greenland. The nighttime satellite i...
Studying the edge of the Sun's magnetic bubble
Oct 21, 2021 (SPX)
We're protected from that radiation by the heliosphere, which itself is created by another source of radiation: the Sun. The Sun constantly spews charged partic...
UK and NASA join forces on new mission to study 'magnetic bubble' around Sun
Oct 18, 2021 (SPX)
Scheduled to launch in 2025, the US-led mission will be crucial for future human exploration of the Moon and Mars, and could also improve the UK's space weather...
Sounding rocket mission to offer snapshot of Sun's magnetic field
Oct 05, 2021 (SPX)
CLASP2.1, short for Chromospheric Layer Spectropolarimeter 2.1, will make these measurements from a NASA sounding rocket. Sounding rockets are small rockets tha...
NASA awards Sun-Sky Scanning Sun Photometers for the AERONET Project
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
This is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with an estimated total ordering value of $10M. The five-year period of performance...
CuPID CubeSat will get new perspective on Sun-Earth boundary
Sep 13, 2021 (SPX)
And then you learn how to say goodbye. "It's a scary feeling, working on a piece of hardware full-time for four years, and then putting it into the rocket deplo...
Parker Solar Probe team sheds new light on structure, behavior of inner solar system dust
Sep 10, 2021 (SPX)
Research teams led by Jamey Szalay of Princeton University and Anna Pusack of University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics took advantag...
The Sun's 11-year cycle cannot explain global warming
Sep 09, 2021 (SPX)
The 11-year near-periodicity recalls that of the solar cycle, which climate-sceptics for decades have argued plays a major role in global warming. But the fluct...
Rocket flight to sharpen NASA's study of the Sun
Sep 08, 2021 (SPX)
SDO's Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment, or EVE, uses sounding rockets for calibration. During roughly 15-minute flights, these suborbital rockets carr...
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