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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 s