The Halloween Storms: When Solar Events Spooked the Skies
October 30, 2013
Ten years ago, scientists watching the skies experienced a Halloween fright of cosmic proportions, when space weather degraded […]
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Ten years ago, scientists watching the skies experienced a Halloween fright of cosmic proportions, when space weather degraded […]
On October 1, 2013, the U.S. federal government shut down and furloughed 800,000 non-essential workers. While services considered […]
NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) is conducting a 12-year project, called Gravity for the Redefinition of the American […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that effective Wednesday, July 25, 2012, at 1600 UTC (10:00 AM MDT), the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) will modernize its geomagnetic storm watch products.
Four years ago my wife and I moved to Lake Guntersville as our ultimate retirement location because it […]
Taking the Search out of Search and RescueIn 1997, a Canadian government study determined that an improved search and rescue system would be one based on medium-Earth orbit satellites, which can provide full global coverage, can determine beacon location, and would need fewer ground stations. This month’s column examines the architecture of the GPS-based Distress Alerting Satellite System and takes a look at early test results.
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