Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies
- Written by Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, Associate Research Scientist, University of Michigan
The SWIFT constellation, shown not to scale in this illustration, will fly farther than its predecessors to improve space weather warning time. Steve AlveyThe burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on – electric grids, aviation and telecommunications – are all vulnerable to the same threat: space...