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| Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:00:00 EDT New solar prediction system gives time to prepare for the storms ahead A new method of predicting solar storms that could help to avoid widespread power and communications blackouts costing billions of pounds has been launched by researchers in the UK. |
| Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:00:00 EDT Navigation satellites contend with stormy Sun Just as we grow used to satellite navigation in everyday life, media reports argue that a coming surge in solar activity could render satnav devices useless, perhaps even frying satellites themselves. Is it true? No. |
| Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT Students help NASA decommission satellite Undergraduate students, who have been helping to control five NASA satellites, participated in the unusual decommissioning of a functioning satellite with a failed science payload in recent days, bringing the craft into Earth re-entry to burn up. |
| Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EDT Ten years flying in formation: The legendary Cluster quartet Next week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of formation flying for the four satellites of ESA's Cluster quartet, one of the most successful scientific missions ever launched. On 1 September 2000, just a few weeks after launch, the four individual satellites of the Cluster mission began coordinated orbits, marking the formal start of formation flying. Since then, the four satellites -- dubbed Samba, Tango, Rumba and Salsa -- have gone on to collect some of the most detailed data ever on the physical properties of space between Earth and the Sun, and on the interactions between the charged particles of the solar wind and Earth's atmosphere. In all, over 2.6 terabytes of data -- enough to fill 3300 CDROMS -- have been delivered from space. |
| Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:00:00 EDT Engineers prove space pioneer's 25-year-old theory When American space pioneer, Dr. Robert L. Forward, proposed in 1984 a way of greatly improving satellite telecommunications using a new family of orbits, some claimed it was impossible. But now engineers in Scotland have proved that Forward was right. |