Sailing the Storm - On Thursday this week the twin spacecraft of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes successfully launched from Cape Canaveral. The mission aims to collect more information about the inhospitable region of the Van Allen Belts surrounding the Earth, which can pose severe electrical hazards to spacecraft crossing into it.
The Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) is being designed to help us understand the sun’s influence on Earth and near-Earth space by studying the Earth’s radiation belts on various scales of space and time.
The RBSP mission is part of the broader LWS program whose missions were conceived to explore fundamental processes that operate throughout the solar system and in particular those that generate hazardous space weather effects in the vicinity of Earth and phenomena that could impact solar system exploration.
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