Topic: geomagnetic storms

  • Ride a Cosmic Carpool to a Distant Space Weather Post

    Ride a Cosmic Carpool to a Distant Space Weather Post

    A $1.6 billion trio of scientific missions launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to a point nearly a million miles from Earth, using a shared "cosmic carpool" approach to maximize scientific return. NOAA's satellite will provide real-time solar wind data to forecast geomagnetic storms that threate...

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  • SpaceX Launches NASA Satellites to Study Space Weather Origins

    SpaceX Launches NASA Satellites to Study Space Weather Origins

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two NASA satellites for the TRACERS mission, which will study Earth's polar cusps to understand space weather phenomena like auroras and geomagnetic storms. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections can disrupt GPS, communications, and power grids, as seen in past ...

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