Spacex launched twin satellites for NASA on Wednesday, which would study how electric-charge solar wind interactions with the Earth’s magnetic field, which will have to change and change continuously. Sometimes dangerous The “space weather” affects satellites, electric grids and other important systems.
Joseph Westlake, director of NASA’s Solar Physics Division, said, “The area around our Earth,” the area around our Earth that dominates the magnetic field of the planet, and it protects us from staller radiation, “the same traser satellite will operate.
“Everything we will learn from the tracer is important for understanding and eventually predicting how the energy from our sun affects the Earth and our space and our space and the ground-based assets, whether it is GPS or communication signs, power grids, space property and our astronauts to work in space.
“It is going to help us protect our way of life on earth.”
Spacex
Stopping a ride for space with tracer with a spacex Falcon 9 rockets were five other small satellites, which includes one that would use a new “polyalingual” terminal to communicate with many other satellites and space probes using different protocols.
Another data will collect how much solar energy the Earth absorbs into space and is rebuilt in space, known as the “radiation budget”, and another who will focus on how the van allen is knocking “murderers” electrons “from the allen radiation belt to rain in the atmosphere.
Two other small satellites were riding, including an experimental “cubsat”, which would test a high-speed 5G communication technology in space and was created by an Australian company, carrying five small satellites to test the space-based air-traffic management technology that could provide aircraft tracking and communication anywhere in the world.
Mission was running at EDT at 2:13 pm when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roared for life in Complex 4E launched at Wandenberg Space Force Base on the California coast. A day late launching on Tuesday disrupted air traffic communication in the Pacific Ocean near Wandenberg due to a regional power outage.
The second time, the vomiting count was easily tied to zero and after increasing the upper stage and after taking out the payload from the lower environment, the first step was peeled, reversed the course and flew back into a landing near the launch pad.
Spacex
A few seconds later, the upper platform engine closed to keep the vehicle in its planned initial class. Two-and-a-half hours were deployed after launching two satellites that make primary tracer payload.
Two of the other smallsats were to be released in a different orbit first, with the remaining a few minutes later after the tracer.
The tracer agranukram is a brief for rebuilding and vigorous electrodynamics reconnaissance satellites. The twin spacecraft produced by Boeing will fly in the same orbit for 10 seconds to two minutes, which helps the researchers to measure the rapid change accurately, indicating how the solar air “pairs” with the Earth’s magnetic field.
“So the sun is a burning, fierce ball of plasma and as it burns, it blows up a exhaust that we call solar wind, it is a plasma, and it always streams from the Sun to Earth,” said David Miles, the leading investigator of the University of Iowa.
“And sometimes, the magnetic field of the Earth basically closes it in the same way as if you have a rock in a stream, it flows around it like water. But other times, those two systems couples (and) you dump mass, energy and speed into the earth system.”
NASA
That coupling drives great Helal display“But it also runs some negative things that we want … understand and reduce, such as the power streams unplaced in our electrical grid, which can potentially cause quick aging in electrical pipelines, GP disintegration, such things.”
“So we are trying to understand what the coupling changes in space and time between those systems,” Miles said.
Other satellites launched on Wednesday range from basic science to technology development. Polyalingual Experimental Terminal, or Pext, will test data from several government and commercial satellites in many communication protocols, testing the equipment capable of sending and obtaining.
To improve goal efficiency and low costs is to streamline communication from a variety of satellites and space checks.
Spacex
Another satellite, known as the Athana-E.i, will continue the ongoing measurement of the Earth’s radiation budget, compared to the energy extracted in space between solar energy coming into the Earth’s atmosphere.
Using spare parts from earlier missions, the athana will test satellite components such as Abhinav Lego to reduce the size of the Ethana-App satellites.
Relativeistic atmospheric loss, or real, satellite, another small cubesat, will study how electrons in the van allen radiation belt are knocked out of place for dangers for satellites and other systems. Robin Milan of Dartmouth University is the leading investigator.
“Radiation belt is an area around the earth that is filled with high-energy charged particles that are traveling near the speed of light,” he said. “They are sometimes called killer electrons because these particles are a threat to our satellites in space. They also rain on our environment where they can contribute to ozone destruction.”
The real cubesat weighs less than 10 pounds and is just one foot tall. Despite its small size, “It carries a powerful particle sensor that will first measure these electrons very fast as they enter our environment, and it is really important to understand what they are spreading.”
What is actually unique, he said, the sensor had a small size, allowing it to be carried by a cubesat, which “can enable future missions, especially those required by the constellations of satellites.”