Solar Sail Spacecraft Could Boost Space Weather Warnings by Nearly 60 Minutes
A potential new solar sail-powered satellite mission is offering an extended early warning of extreme space weather events to safely…
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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…
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…
NASA’s New Missions Will Map the Sun and the Cosmos
Two NASA missions aimed at advancing space research are scheduled for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March…
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…