Tag: Space Weather
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Hurricane-tracking CYGNSS satellite system gets NASA renewal as it expands its reach
Ocean wind tracker is finding new uses for inland studies.
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More than $5M to improve solar storm forecasts
U-Michigan researchers play lead roles in national effort funded by NSF, NASA.
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Switchbacks and spikes: Parker Solar Probe data consistent with 20-year-old theory
Magnetic flux findings suggest “profound consequences for basic solar processes.”
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Lockdown for space agencies put research projects in limbo
University of Michigan researchers’ work on NASA and European Space Agency projects that have been altered by COVID-19.
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‘Largest radio telescope in space’ to improve solar storm warnings
NASA has selected University of Michigan’s $62M Explorer cubesat mission.
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Launching Solar Orbiter
For more than a decade, a U-M team helped develop the scientific payload aboard Solar Orbiter. Join them on launch night.
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Solar Orbiter mission to track the sun’s active regions, improve space weather prediction
Latest ESA launch will be the first mission to get hi-res images of the sun’s poles
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Parker Solar Probe: ‘We’re missing something fundamental about the sun’
First data holds clues to a decades-old mystery, and major implications for space weather prediction
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Solving the sun’s super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe
Probe will go where no spacecraft has gone and measure a process never directly observed before.
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Key Parker Solar Probe sensor bests sun simulator—last launch hurdle
With old IMAX projector bulbs, Michigan Engineers simulate the sun.
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Solar storm: U-M model’s predictions ‘a remarkable achievement’
A space weather tool Michigan Engineers developed was used to produce animations that show predictions of how the recent storm would distort Earth’s magnetic field.
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Airborne nuclear tests can mimic solar storms
Humans can influence space weather.