bearnard1609 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 Does space weather on the space crafts` launches and do scientists check it before space crafts go to space? I know there is sach fact like a space turbulence and it can influence on a space craft, but can space weather? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanneyt Sander Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 When there is a strong space radiation storm that can har satellites, launches might be delayed. It his can also be the case with strong solar flares that could interfere with communications. in orbit satellites can have issues due to strong space weather. Some satellite orbiters push satellites to a lower orbit to prevent damage. Low orbit satellites don’t have much effect, higher orbit satellites are in more danger during strong space weather events. For example on the LASCO imagery you can see the images with many white sparks due to incoming particles on the sensor. more information can be found here: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/rbsp/science/rbsp-spaceweather-human.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldminor Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 I just watched a great video put out by DW Documentary discussing solar storms and the potential threat they can pose. Very interesting plus the video brings up the current information from the Parker Solar Probe which shows how the solar wind moves in a whip like fashion through space. They show images of this. Towards the end one NASA scientist states that all of them made predictions as to what the probe would show about space, and that everyone's guess/prediction was wrong. ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyJo Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 The study of the influence of solar activity at different levels of the orbit was carried out using the Van Allen Probes. In 2019, the last one was disabled. NASA was able to collect data for most of the 11-year solar cycle. The mission was originally designed for 2 years but lasted almost 7 years. The data from this mission became the basis for more than 640 scientific articles. I wonder if scientists think there is enough data. Or a new similar mission has already begun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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