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Solar Stake-out To Improve Space Weather Forecasts

ScienceDaily  Thu, 07/10/2008 - 12:45

About six times each minute for at least five years, a soon-to-be launched NASA satellite will measure the sun's quirky, occasionally violent, output of extreme ultraviolet light.

To ensure that this solar stake-out yields data useful for understanding the weather in space and its earthly consequences, researchers are helping a NASA team prepare for annual rocket-borne check-ups of key instruments aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory.


 

Joint ESA/NASA team wins international award

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 05/07/2008 - 23:00

(European Space Agency) The Ulysses mission operations team has won an international award in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the success and scientific productivity of the joint ESA/NASA observatory mission, now orbiting the poles of the Sun.