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    NASA’s SunRISE Mission Studying Solar Particle Storms Moves Toward Launch

    An animation shows a mass of material eruption from the Sun and creating a burst of particles.

    NASA's SunRISE mission — short for the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment — passed a mission review on Sept. 8, 2021, moving the mission into its next phase. "SunRISE will detect and study eruptions of radio waves from the Sun that often precede major solar events containing high energy particle radiation," said Justin Kasper, SunRISE …

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    GOLD’s Top-Down View of Our Atmosphere

    Satellite data overlaid over an outline of Earth shows twin bands of emission near the equator at night.

    From its vantage point in geostationary orbit, NASA's GOLD mission – short for Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk – has given scientists a new view of dynamics in Earth's upper atmosphere. Together, three research papers show different ways the upper atmosphere changes unexpectedly, even during relatively mild conditions that aren't typically thought to …

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    NASA and United Launch Alliance Review Landsat 9 Launch Date

    The Landsat 9 spacecraft inside the Integrated Processing Facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California

    NASA and United Launch Alliance currently are reviewing the launch date for the Landsat 9 spacecraft scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Current pandemic demands for medical liquid oxygen have impacted the delivery of the needed liquid nitrogen supply to Vandenberg by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and its supplier Airgas. …

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    NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Readies for Launch at Kennedy

    NASA's Lucy spacecraft is now in Florida – its final Earth-bound destination – before embarking on a mission to study the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. A United States Air Force C-17 cargo plane from Charleston Air Force Base in South Carolina, flew to Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado, to pick up the spacecraft. The …

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    Storm (outflow) chasing high up in the stratosphere

    Photo of the ER-2 Aircraft taking off.

    By Rei Ueyama, NASA Ames Research Center /SALINA, KANSAS/ It's 3 a.m. in Salina, Kansas. The moon is out. Crickets are chirping on this balmy summer night. The light above the door to the hangar softly illuminates the sign that reads "DCOTSS." Most teammates are just waking up. I unlock the door and walk in …

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    NOAA’s GOES-T Launch Now Targeting Jan. 8, 2022

    Artist's rendering of GOES-R.

    NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are now targeting Jan. 8, 2022, for the launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite T (GOES-T) mission. The launch was previously planned for Dec. 7, 2021. NASA, NOAA, and United Launch Alliance (ULA) coordinated the new target date to optimize launch schedules for missions flying …

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