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The National Science Foundation, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Boeing and Iridium successfully demonstrate space weather observation system, Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment (AMPERE).
The new NSF-funded Boeing AMPERE project is using existing satellite sensors to monitor activity in the magnetic field around Earth, also known as space weather.
Big solar bursts of plasma occasionally blast toward Earth, disrupting satellite communication, causing temporary blackouts and even interfering with high-altitude airplane navigation.
Now a consortium of science and industry is working together to use communication satellites as data points to gather information about space weather and help scientists better understand what’s happening in our corner of the solar system.
