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New NASA Mission To Study Solar Storms




NASA has come up with a new mission who the organization has named as SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) with an aim to do extensive research and study the solar storms on the Sun. The sole purpose to be is able to reach to a point where it would be able to predict the solar storms which would be used to shield astronauts and space equipment on space trips of long durations to Mars or the Moon.
The latest mission from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is built up with six CubeSats which would function as a large single radio telescope. With a deadline set to July 1, 2023, NASA has put in an investment of whopping a total of 62.6 million dollars for the design, built and launch of this SunRISE mission. This SunRISE mission is led by Justin Kasper at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and is being managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Pasadena region in California.

Scientists at NASA have designed the mission to study and gain more information on how the sun generates solar storms and gives out huge space weather storms which are scientifically termed as solar particle storms. SunRISE will also be aiming to gain important insights about how the solar system functions. Getting more additional information on this would help NASA and the other space organizations to know more about how to protect the astronauts traveling to the planets near to the Sun-like Mars and also the Moon.
NASA came up with this project in the month of August in 2017. This mission which totals up to a period of eleven months would be heavily relying upon the six CubeSats powered by solar energy and believe it or not, each of these CubeSat is similar to the size of a normal daily toaster oven that would be operating together in sync to observe the radio images of low frequency emissions from the Sun and share them over the Deep Space A network of NASA. This total assemblage of the six CubeSats would be hovering at approximately six miles of each other over the Earth’s atmosphere because otherwise, the incoming radio signals would be obstructed that the SunRISE mission wants to detect. The CubeSats would be attached by a Payload Orbital Delivery System (PODS) which will be helping to put it in a geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO).
The six CubeSats would be generating three-dimensional maps of the radio signals that would be focusing the points were the huge particles bursts are arising on the sun and how they develop as they expand into space. This information is the first of its kind to ever been undertaken and would be highly significant to help understand and determine what starts and helps in the acceleration of these huge radiation waves of radiation. The mission spacecraft would also be working in unison to map out the magnetic field lines that are expanding out in the interplanetary space from the solar surface of the Sun. Furthermore, it is also said to be studying on a part of the spectrum of the Sun that is not easily traced or visible from the Earth. This would be highly anticipated mission post the failures of the other solar probes like the ground-based Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope and the Parker Solar Probe and the Solar Orbiter.


The SunRISE mission is one of the Missions of Opportunity from NASA, which is a part of its Explorers The program that is designed with the goal to increase and maximize on the interplanetary and scientific knowledge gained by the new and relatively cheaper mission via the rocket launches which are already commissioned and are already in line to go to space. The Explorers Program is one of the oldest programs of NASA that was built to provide low-cost space science investigations. SunRISE, for instance is scheduled on rideshare via a rocket that will also be carrying a commercial satellite from the Maxar of Westminster in Colo. Once the host spacecraft the Earth’s atmosphere and reaches the space it will deploy all the six CubeSats before continuing on its own mission.

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