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NASA Selects Mission - first low radio frequency interferometer in space

Discussion in 'Amateur Radio News' started by W0PV, Apr 15, 2020.

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  1. W0PV

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    It may not be as glamorous & grandiose as a HF parabolic dish on the lunar far side, but probably a bit more bang for the buck, with the science possibly providing some potential benefits for radio amateurs too.

    73, John, WØPV

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    NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms – known as solar particle storms – into planetary space. Not only will such information improve understanding of how our solar system works, but it ultimately can help protect astronauts traveling to the Moon and Mars by providing better information on how the Sun’s radiation affects the space environment they must travel through.

    The Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) is a proposed NASA Heliophysics Explorer Mission of Opportunity that finished Phase A last year. SunRISE will provide an entirely new view on particle acceleration and transport in the inner heliosphere by creating the first low radio frequency interferometer in space to localize heliospheric radio emissions. Six small spacecraft (S/C) will fly in a supersynchronous geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) within about 10 km of each other and image the Sun in a portion of the spectrum that is blocked by the ionosphere and cannot be observed from Earth. Mission-enabling advances in software-defined radios and GPS navigation and timing, developed and flown over the past few years on the Mars Cube One (MarCO) and DARPA High Frequency Research (DHFR) missions, have finally made this concept affordable and low-risk. By determining the location of decametrichectometric (DH) radio bursts from 0.1 MHz–25 MHz, SunRISE provides key information on particle acceleration mechanisms associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the magnetic field topology from active regions into interplanetary space. SunRISE is highly complementary to current missions, such as Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter, and to the ground-based Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST).


    The above text is contained in the full story from here, Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE)

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    The leading image in this post and recent news release link - NASA Selects Mission to Study Causes of Giant Solar Particle Storms
     
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  2. W1YW

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    OK.
     
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  3. KA8VNG

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    This is news HOT off the press. Hi Hi. Cool man. Keep it cool for our space program.
     
  4. ZL1PDT

    ZL1PDT Ham Member QRZ Page

    Just watch the qrm will go off the scale even with no antenna and will not be able to turn your radio on,
    73 good luck,
     
  5. KG4RRN

    KG4RRN Ham Member QRZ Page

    Are they still trying to fifurevout how to toast marshmellows in space ???
     
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  6. W1YW

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    Unfortunately,we will see reductions of 30-50% of the NASA workforce by 2022 and most new missions will be scrubbed. There is no money to pay for these projects.
     
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  7. KA2RRK

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    I can see the moon rocks being sold on QRZ now...

    RRK
     
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  8. VE4DLA

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    They’re receivers not transmitters
     
  9. W1YW

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    We all realize that image is not a photo of the Sun, right?

    Explosive mushroom clouds are formed by bouyancy of hot gasses. On the Sun's 'surface' (it really has no surface BTW) , magnetic repulsion and shock waves drive plasmas out; they are not bouyant.

    There are no mushroom clouds on the Sun.

    The photo looks like something from STAR TREK: Genesis
     
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  10. WJ2L

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    The better we understand the sun, the better off we will be considering: qrm, qrn, or what have you. Going in a manned mission to mars does not sound like good idea until we understand more of how to protect astronauts from solar storms along with the detrimental effects of prolonged exposure to space that cause losses tobone integrity as well. Robotic explorations spare humans the negative effects, until science designs ways to over come these problems.
     
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  11. WR2E

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    You need to run for office! Have some covfefe first though.
     
  12. WQ4G

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    A recent Chinese Nuclear Weapons test? However, I doubt they would perform an 'atmospheric test.' Or would they?

    Dan WQ4G
     
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  13. KG5JAW

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    Main photo looks like a nuke going off, to me! On the Sun? Yep, probably millions of times a day, 24/7! ☄️
    73! KG5JAW
     
  14. KG5JAW

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    Nah, man! EBay!
     
  15. W1YW

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    Fusion happens inside the center of the sun. What we see as the 'sun' is actually an opaque, incandescent globe of gas that surrounds the fusion core (in several 'zones'). It takes about 1000 years for light to emerge from the core to the 'outside, then 8 minutes to reach you:)

    Someone stuck that mushroom cloud image on another image

    :)
     
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