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Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies
By Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti published
Space weather imposes threats on everything from electrical grids to GPS navigation.

Russia launches satellite for Iran toward orbit alongside 2 space weather probes (photos)
By Mike Wall published
A Russian Soyuz rocket launched the Ionosfera-M 3 and 4 satellites, along with an Iranian spacecraft and 17 cubesats, toward orbit early Friday morning (July 25).

Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how
By Sanja Panovska, Agnit Mukhopadhyay, Raven Garvey published
Thanks to auroras and other space weather, humans have adapted techniques to overcome these issues.

SpaceX launches NASA's TRACERS mission to protect Earth from space weather
By Keith Cooper last updated
NASA's TRACERS mission blasted off July 23 on a Falcon 9 rocket with three other small agency satellites that will act as technology demonstrators to monitor space weather.

Twin NASA Mars probes will fly on 2nd-ever launch of Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket
By Mike Wall published
Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket now has a payload for its second-ever flight — NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission.

2 new NASA satellites will track space weather to help keep us safe from solar storms
By Keith Cooper published
The new TRACERS mission will track magnetic reconnection that drives particles down into Earth's atmosphere when space weather turns bad.

Northern lights may be visible in these 13 US states on July 2
By Daisy Dobrijevic published
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to New York as an incoming solar storm could spark geomagnetic storm conditions overnight.

Northern lights may be visible in these 10 US States on June 26
By Daisy Dobrijevic published
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Washington as a giant hole in the sun's atmosphere fuels geomagnetic storms with a high-speed solar wind.
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