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    NASA’s SunRISE Mission Reviewing Launch Date, Names New Science Lead

    Six identical CubeSats arranged in a semi-circle on a reflective blue surface, with their solar panels deployed. Each small, boxy satellite is mounted on a black stand. The background is a smooth, light-colored wall, illuminated with a warm, bright light from the upper right, mimicking a sunrise.

    The team for NASA’s SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment) is reviewing the mission’s launch date, with anticipated launch no earlier than September. The heliophysics mission is sharing a ride aboard a United Launch Alliance Vulcan-Centaur rocket carrying U.S. government payloads. The SunRISE mission consists of six toaster-size small satellites, or SmallSats, that will detect […]

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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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