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Switchbacks and spikes: Parker Solar Probe data consistent with 20-year-old theory
  1. Switchbacks and spikes: Parker Solar Probe data consistent with 20-year-old theory

    Magnetic flux findings suggest “profound consequences for basic solar processes.”

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  2. Lockdown for space agencies put research projects in limbo

    University of Michigan researchers’ work on NASA and European Space Agency projects that have been altered by COVID-19.

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  3. ‘Largest radio telescope in space’ to improve solar storm warnings

    NASA has selected University of Michigan’s $62M Explorer cubesat mission.

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  4. Launching Solar Orbiter

    For more than a decade, a U-M team helped develop the scientific payload aboard Solar Orbiter. Join them on launch night.

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  5. Solar Orbiter mission to track the sun’s active regions, improve space weather prediction

    Latest ESA launch will be the first mission to get hi-res images of the sun’s poles

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  6. Parker Solar Probe: ‘We’re missing something fundamental about the sun’

    First data holds clues to a decades-old mystery, and major implications for space weather prediction

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  7. Universities’ crucial role in our spacefaring future

    To ensure that our species endures, we must advance space-based technologies and break our interdisciplinary boundaries.

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  8. Solving the sun’s super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe

    Probe will go where no spacecraft has gone and measure a process never directly observed before.

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  9. Solar storm congressional testimony: ‘The risk is real’

    Professor Justin Kasper addresses Senate committee on solar threat to power grid.

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  10. Key Parker Solar Probe sensor bests sun simulator—last launch hurdle

    With old IMAX projector bulbs, Michigan Engineers simulate the sun.

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