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

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

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

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

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

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Around 8 pm on Jan. 16, people across Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio witnessed a meteor exploding in Earth’s atmosphere.

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Professor Margaret Kivelson’s lecture titled, “Magnetic Structures in the Solar System” was followed by a conversation with daughter U-M Professor Valerie A. Kivelson.

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