Solar Holler: Satellite Network Preps to Help Predict Stormy Space Weather [Slide Show]
Scientists hope that real-time information about potential solar disturbances can be used to warn those relying on operations in the increasingly crowded low Earth orbit
Solar Holler: Satellite Network Preps to Help Predict Stormy Space Weather [Slide Show]
- UP NEXT This image is a rendering of Iridium's $3-billion next-generation satellite network, called Iridium NEXT. The new network will be in place sometime after 2015, when the 72 satellites (66 active and six spares) are launched into orbit on board eight SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets... COURTESY OF IRIDIUM
- SNOC Boeing handles AMPERE data collection, processing and packaging from the Iridium Satellite Network Operations Center (SNOC) in Leesburg, Va. The magnetic field samples are then transferred to the APL science data center in Laurel, Md., where the data are processed to yield globally integrated views of Earth's space environment... COURTESY OF IRIDIUM
- SPACE WEATHER FLURRIES A Boeing engineering team and scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have fine-tuned AMPERE to yield continuous, real-time measurements of the magnetic field over the entire Earth simultaneously with up to 100 times greater sampling density than previously possible... COURTESY OF IRIDIUM