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Solar Sail Spacecraft Could Boost Space Weather Warnings by Nearly 60 Minutes

admin5544 months ago04 mins

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 pieces of our tech — without waiting for them to fail mid-activity and then figuring out why. Going far beyond Earth in the traditional sense of this type of satellite,…

NASA’s Twin TRACERS Satellites Will Monitor Space Weather to Shield Earth from Solar Storms

admin5545 months ago03 mins

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 the Earth’s atmosphere, communication, and orbital systems. Travelling together in sun-synchronous orbit, the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) will keep watch over Earth’s polar cusps — a…