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Hours After Launch, RBSP Takes First Science Steps
Immediately after launch, RBSP entered a 60-day commissioning phase of operations, where all of the spacecrafts’ systems and instruments are activated, monitored, and made ready for the two-year primary science mission.
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New 'Chorus' Recording By RBSP's EMFISIS Instrument
Radio waves, recorded by RBSP's EMFISIS instrument, are at frequencies that are audible to the human ear and are emitted by the energetic particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere.
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New RBSP Instrument Telemetry Provides 'Textbook' Excitement
Just three days after launch, live data of the particles in the Van Allen radiation belts from the two RBSP spacecraft, provides full science data right out of the box.
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Mission to Study Magnetic Explosions Passes Review
On August 31, 2012, NASA's MMS mission proved it was ready for its next steps by passing a Systems Integration Review, which deems a mission ready to integrate instruments onto the spacecraft.
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SDO Sees Massive Filament Eruption
On September 1, 2012, a long, whip-like filament erupted on the sun. The eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, caused aurora near Earth on September 3.
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RBSP Launches - Twin Probes in Orbit
NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes are flying in Earth orbit after a successful liftoff this morning. The spacecraft are now at home in the Van Allen belts.
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ACE, Workhorse Of NASA's Heliophysics Fleet, Is 15
ACE is a crucial component of NASA's heliophysics fleet, providing warning of incoming space weather. In 15 years, it has also helped map the ingredients and drivers of the vast sea of flowing particles surrounding Earth.
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Tracking Shuttle Exhaust Reveals More Information About Atmospheric Winds
Scientists tracked space shuttle exhaust plumes to study airflow in the upper atmosphere. The water vapor spread faster than expected and collected near the Arctic to form noctilucent clouds.
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Sun Has "Eureka!" Moment
A series of CMEs on August 20, as seen by the SOHO satellite, produces one shaped remarkably like a incandescent light bulb.
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Twin Probes to Study Radiation Belts
Radiation Belt Storm Probes will study Earth's ever-changing radiation belts in greater detail than ever before.