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in News, NASA, Space, Science, Kennedy Space Center, ESA, Atlas V, Space Exploration, Sun, European Space Agency, Technology, Solar System, Research, space weather, Parker Solar ProbeMeet Solar Orbiter, Launching to the Sun for Europe and NASA in Feb 2020
We’ve been hearing a lot about NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP), which has been making close flybys of the Sun to learn more about how our star evolved and behaves. But now, another mission is getting ready to follow in its footsteps – Solar Orbiter. Both spacecraft / missions will even work together, to unravel […] More
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in News, NASA, Space, Science, United Launch Alliance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Earth, Sun, Solar System, Research, Delta-IV Heavy, space weather, Parker Solar ProbeFirst Data From NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reveals Sun in New, Surprising Ways
Thanks to NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP), scientists are now learning more about the Sun than ever possible before. The newest findings were announced this morning during a media teleconference. More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, JPL, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, United Launch Alliance, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Sun, Exploration, Solar System, Research, News Release, Venus, Solar Probe PlusSolar Probe Plus Mission Moves Closer to ‘Touching the Sun’ in 2024
The Solar System is a busy place, with spacecraft currently visiting most of the planets as well as some dwarf planets and comets. Akatsuki is at Venus, several rovers and orbiters are at Mars, the Juno spacecraft just reached Jupiter, Cassini is still orbiting Saturn, Dawn is still at Ceres, and Rosetta continues to study […] More
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ULA Delivers Four-Spacecraft Flotilla on Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully flown its highly reliable Atlas V booster out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to deliver the four-spacecraft flotilla of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) into a Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) to explore the microphysics of “magnetic reconnection,” a process which converts magnetic energy into heat and kinetic […] More
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in NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, United Launch Alliance, Atlas V, ULA, Earth, Sun, Solar System, space weather, MMSNASA’s MMS Fleet and the Science of Magnetic Reconnection
Another NASA mission is about to blast into the magnetosphere. Four solar-terrestrial satellites are set to launch this week atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex-41 (SLC-41). The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission will explore the Sun’s and the Earth’s magnetic fields, and study how they […] More
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NASA’s Van Allen Probes Detect Life-Protective Electron Barrier Inside Earth’s Radiation Belts
Earlier this week, millions of Americans on Earth, as well as those living off it, came together to celebrate Thanksgiving—a time-honored holiday tradition of expressing gratitude for life’s blessings. Yet one thing that everyone on Earth should be thankful for is the protection offered by a nearly impenetrable barrier in space that was recently discovered […] More
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Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) to Maintain Critical US Space Weather Alert Capabilities
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD — The Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR, launching in January 2015, will provide critically unique observations aimed at maintaining at risk U.S. capabilities for broadcasting real-time solar wind alerts valuable in protecting a wide range of crucial U.S. infrastructure from disruption by approaching solar storms. More
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NASA’s Van Allen Probes Going Strong After Two Years of Studying Earth’s Radiation Belts
It’s been two years now since NASA launched their twin Van Allen probes to explore the mysteries of Earth’s hazardous radiation belts and study the Sun’s influence on space weather phenomenon in Earth’s near-space environment. In the time since, the mission has been declared an overwhelming success, making numerous discoveries and answering many questions that have […] More
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To Navigate the Seas of the Sun: NASA’s Solar Probe Plus Mission to the Nearest Star
“The scorching rays of the nearer Sun softened the fragrant wax which held his wings. The wax melted; his arms were bare as he beat them up and down, but, lacking wings, they took no hold on the air.” — Ovid, “Metamorphoses,” Book VIII (8th century AD) One of the most well-known myths of […] More
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Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Spacecraft to Fly Through Earth’s Magnetic Reconnection Events for First 3-D Maps—NASA Administrator Bolden Visit
NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD — An armada of four virtually identical spacecraft comprising NASA’s groundbreaking Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will soon fly through Earth’s magnetic reconnection events to capture the first three-dimensional maps of this little understood process that releases vast amounts of energy into the magnetosphere that protects Earth. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden […] More
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NASA Awards Astrotech Contract for MMS Satellite Processing
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. More
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Spying on Senkyo
The Cassini spacecraft peers through Titan’s thick clouds to spy on the region dubbed “Senkyo” by scientists. The dark features include vast fields of dunes, composed of solid hydrocarbon particles precipitated out of Titan’s atmosphere. And Titan’s southern pole is shrouded in the recently formed polar vortex. More
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