 |  | | | | NASA Selects APL to Build Radiation Belt Storm Probe Satellites
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05.12.06
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NASA announced Monday the Johns
Hopkins University-Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., will manage the
development and operations of two satellites for the Living With a Star
Radiation Belt Storm Probe mission.
The spacecraft will be launched in 2012. Selections of science
instruments will be announced later this year. The mission will investigate
the interactions of the Earth's radiation belts and magnetic fields with
solar storms.
The science results will be used to develop space weather predictions
much the same way Earth's weather is predicted. Increased knowledge of the
effects of space weather will permit better design and operations of new
technology on Earth and in space.
This mission is the second in the Living With a Star Program. The first
mission, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, is planned for launch in 2008 and
will investigate solar variability. For information about the Living With a Star Program, visit:
+ Living With a Star site
Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington, DC
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