A potential new solar sail-powered satellite mission is offering an extended early warning of extreme space weather events to safely shut down the most vulnerable […]
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NASA’s Twin TRACERS Satellites Will Monitor Space Weather to Shield Earth from Solar Storms
Two NASA satellites are scheduled to be launched into low-Earth orbit in a mission designed to do nothing less than study magnetic storms that imperil […]
NASA’s MMS Mission Marks 10 Years of Magnetic Reconnection Discoveries
A decade after its launch on March 12, 2015, NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has significantly advanced the understanding of magnetic reconnection, a fundamental process […]
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NASA’s LEXI Will Provide X-Ray Vision of Earth’s Magnetosphere
NASA’s next mission to the Moon will carry an instrument called LEXI (the Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager), which will provide the first-ever global view […]
