A visualization of the Earth’s radiation belts, based on data that were gathered by NASA’s twin Van Allen probes. The Earth is seen to be surrounded by the plasmapause (blue-green area) and the two main radiation belts further out (multi-color area). The boundary between the plasmapause and the inner edge of the outer […]
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NASA’s Van Allen Probes orbit through two giant radiation belts surrounding Earth. In the time since launching two years ago, the probes have discovered a third radiation belt, and other observations have helped explain how particles in the belts can be sped up to nearly the speed of light.Image Caption and Credit: NASA […] Image Credit: Astrotech ASTROTECH CORPORATION and its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary, leading providers of commercial space services, announced that NASA has awarded Astrotech a contract to provide facilities and pre-launch processing services for the Magnetospheric MultiScale (MMS) mission to launch in late 2014. […] Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace Using data from a NASA satellite, scientists have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the heart of one of the harshest regions of near-Earth space, a region of super-energetic, charged particles surrounding the globe and known as the Van Allen radiation belts. […] Artist’s concept of the Van Allen Probes—formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP)—at work, high above Earth. Image Credit: NASA Six months after their launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., NASA’s twin Van Allen Probes have discovered a third radiation belt girdling the Earth. Published by the journal Science, […] The Radiation Storm Belt Probes mission has been renamed the Van Allen Probes, in honor of James Van Allen, the discoverer of the two belts which encircle our world. Photo Credit: ULA / Pat Corkery NASA has conducted one of the most eloquent no-brainers in history. The space agency has renamed its Radiation […] Photo Credit: Mike Killian – AmericaSpace / ARES Institute AmericaSpace photographer Mike Killian took this time-elapsed shot from the recent launch of an Atlas V 401 rocket with the Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft onboard. NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA APOD). The picture shows a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas rocket […] Photo Credit: Mike Killian – ARES Institute / AmericaSpace CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — NASA’s twin Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) satellites slowly, steadily rode a Atlas V 401 launch vehicle to orbit Saturday, Aug. 30 at 4:05 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41). This is the […] 
Weather moves in over SLC-41 and the Atlas-V rocket with NASA’s twin RBSP spacecraft. Photo Credit: Mike Killian for Zero-G News and AmericaSpace NASA’s RBSP mission will have to wait at least 24 more hours before trying to launch for a third time. Weather in the form of cumulous clouds and lightning scrubbed […] Image Credit: Mike Killian – AmericaSpace / ARES Institute CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — NASA and United Launch Alliance (ULA) were all set to launch the Radiation Belt Storm Probe mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-41 in Florida – but it was not to be. Weather was not an issue […] |
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