RBSP and Van Allen belts |
RBSP and Van Allen belts |
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May 26 2006, 06:54 PM
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland., will develop and operate twin NASA spacecraft to study how the sun interacts with Earth's radiation belts.
Part of NASA's Living With a Star Program, the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) will study the Van Allen belts, the doughnut-shaped bands of charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field that extend some 20,000 miles around our planet. |
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Sep 27 2006, 02:11 PM
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Space Scientists Uncover Causes Of Gap In Van Allen Belts
London UK (SPX) Sep 27, 2006 A team of British and US scientists have discovered that the gap in the Van Allen radiation belts is formed by natural wave turbulence in space, not by lightning. The discovery settles years of controversy among space scientists about the mechanisms responsible for causing the gap and has important implications for space weather forecasting. http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Space_Sc..._Belts_999.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Aug 10 2012, 04:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 311 Joined: 31-August 05 From: Florida & Texas, USA Member No.: 482 |
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland., will develop and operate twin NASA spacecraft to study how the sun interacts with Earth's radiation belts. Part of NASA's Living With a Star Program, the Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) will study the Van Allen belts, the doughnut-shaped bands of charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field that extend some 20,000 miles around our planet. Final preparations have begun for launch on Thursday, Aug. 23, from Florida's Space Coast. The press briefing was held yesterday, with media archived here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/rbsp/mul..._materials.html |
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Aug 26 2012, 04:07 PM
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Delayed till Thursday the 30th due to TS/Hurricane Isaac according to spaceflightnow.com:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av032/status.html |
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Aug 31 2012, 12:30 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 202 Joined: 9-September 08 Member No.: 4334 |
Launched and in orbit!
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