Forecasters expect that the worst of the storm will hit around midnight on Saturday night. During this time, a full-halo coronal mass ejection is expected to reach the Earth’s magnetic field. Experts have noted that auroras may also be visible over the weekend in areas much farther from the poles […]
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SAN FRANCISCO – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded contracts to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ and Spire Global to provide space weather data as part of a pilot program to test the value of the commercial observations. “The awards represent NOAA’s next step toward working with the commercial sector to obtain […]
The detector, a ground-based neutron monitor, has been developed by experts from Lancaster University in tandem with the UK Atomic Energy Authority and British businesses. Costing £1.26million, the project is part of a drive by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to improve the Met Office’s ability to […]
TAMPA, Fla. — British small satellite startup Open Cosmos said May 27 it has secured European Space Agency funding to develop plans for a space weather monitoring constellation. ESA awarded a 5.2 million euro ($5.6 million) contract to Open Cosmos, which is the technical lead for a European consortium comprising […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is looking ahead to a future generation of space weather instruments. The agency’s first priority is ensuring the continuity of measurements to be made by the Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO) mission sensor suite scheduled to travel to Lagrange Point 1 in […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Mission Space, a Latvian startup focused on space weather monitoring, announced an agreement Jan. 20 to launch a set of high energy particle detectors later this year on a cubesat manufactured by Bulgarian startup EnduroSat. “We tested our detectors in the stratosphere last year,” Ksenia Moskalenko, Mission […]
The internet could be crippled for weeks in the wake of a large solar storm thanks to vulnerabilities in world’s massive network of submarine communications cables. This is the warning of University of California, Irvine computer scientist Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, who assessed how space weather may affect internet infrastructure. The […]
The sun’s activity is expected to ramp up toward the next predicted maximum in 2025. NASA Goddard The blazing hot ball of gas at the center of our solar system could prove problematic for future moon explorers. Although it sits some 93 million miles from Earth, the activity that occurs […]