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NASA to Launch Three Rockets from Alaska in Single Aurora Experiment
Mar 24, 2025 (SPX)
The experiment's outcome could upend a long-held theory about the aurora's interaction with the thermosphere. It may also improve space weather forecasting, cri...
NASA's EZIE Satellites Confirm Operational Status in Early Mission Phase
Mar 24, 2025 (SPX)
The trio of spacecraft was deployed into orbit via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on March 15 EDT (March 14 PDT). Fol...
Chinese Meridian Phase II sets new benchmark in global space weather monitoring
Mar 24, 2025 (SPX)
Initiated in 2019, CMP Phase II implemented a strategic "two vertical, two horizontal" cross-shaped monitoring network aligned along the 100 E and 120 E longitu...
Peak solar activity brings increased focus to ionosphere data for satellite safety
Mar 24, 2025 (SPX)
To address these challenges, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) operates the Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Cent...
EZIE satellites begin mission to map Earth's auroral electrojets
Mar 17, 2025 (SPX)
In the next 10 days, the EZIE spacecraft trio will transmit signals back to mission control to confirm their operational status. These satellites will fly in lo...
Stargazers marvel at 'Blood Moon', rare total lunar eclipse
Mar 14, 2025 (AFP)
The celestial spectacle was visible in the Americas and Pacific and Atlantic oceans, as well as in the westernmost parts of Europe and Africa. The phenomenon ha...
NASA's PUNCH Mission Commences Study of Solar Wind
Mar 13, 2025 (SPX)
Over its planned two-year duration, PUNCH will conduct extensive 3D imaging of the Sun's corona, or outermost atmosphere, and its transformation into the solar ...
Space Weather Forecast: How to Protect Earth and Satellites from Solar Storms
Mar 12, 2025 (SPX)
These phenomena directly affect our technological infrastructure, in particular, satellites, power grids, and communication systems. Therefore, we must learn ho...
Striking images capture the story of space weather
Mar 11, 2025 (SPX)
Despite being approximately 150 million km from the Sun, Earth remains well within the heliosphere, a vast expanse of space dominated by intense solar radiation...
BAE Systems selected to develop NOAA's next-generation space weather satellite
Mar 06, 2025 (SPX)
Positioned at the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1), a stable location between the Earth and the sun, the L1 Series satellite will conduct continuous monitoring o...
Proba-3 Prepares for Solar Corona Observations with Stellar Alignment Test
Feb 26, 2025 (SPX)
Proba-3 carries ASPIICS (Association of Spacecraft for Polarimetric and Imaging Investigation of the Corona of the Sun), an advanced coronagraph developed by th...
NASA's EZIE Launching to Study Magnetic Fingerprints of Earth's Aurora
Feb 26, 2025 (SPX)
In March, NASA plans to launch its EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission to learn more about these powerful currents, in the hopes of ultimately mit...
NASA's PUNCH Mission to Revolutionize Our View of Solar Wind
Feb 24, 2025 (SPX)
NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission will be the first to image the Sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, and solar wind together...
Solar Orbiter prepares for unprecedented Venus flyby
Feb 20, 2025 (SPX)
The spacecraft's maneuver will alter its orbital trajectory, granting scientists a rare opportunity to observe the Sun's poles, a perspective unattainable from ...
Long-Term Decline in Downward Surface Solar Radiation Highlights Emission Impacts
Feb 20, 2025 (SPX)
As a crucial component of Earth's energy balance, DSSR influences global climate patterns and is essential for renewable energy production. Given its importance...
Lightning strikes link weather on Earth and weather in space
Feb 06, 2025 (SPX)
Occasionally, though, an event happens that can jostle them out of place, sending electrons raining down into Earth's atmosphere. These high-energy particles in...
Interaction of kinetic waves and suprathermal particles could be key to unlocking heliophysics mystery
Feb 05, 2025 (SPX)
To shed further light on this age-old mystery, Syed Ayaz, a Ph.D. candidate in the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), employed a statis...
PUNCH solar arrays pass critical pre-launch tests
Jan 29, 2025 (SPX)
The solar array tests were conducted in a specialized cleanroom environment, designed to prevent contamination and safeguard the spacecraft's sensitive equipmen...
New insights into solar opacity through helioseismology
Jan 29, 2025 (SPX)
A recent international study, led by Gael Buldgen from the ULiege Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics, used helioseismic methods to independently measure h...
SwRI-led PUNCH spacecraft reach final milestone before launch
Jan 23, 2025 (SPX)
"The PUNCH mission will integrate our understanding of the Sun's corona, the outer atmosphere visible during total solar eclipses, with the 'solar wind' that fi...
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