The SwRI-developed Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) is integrated into NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory satellite to provide real-time, 24/7 observations of the solar ...

Radio occultation (RO) instrument from Beyond Gravity. GRAS’ zenith-pointing antenna tracks a number of GPS satellites in range. This is indicated by the blue lines. The track-line changes to yellow ...

Anna Mani, the Indian physicist who built the instruments that gave independent India the ability to measure its own weather, ...

In a one-week period, Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to complete two 20-month studies on new instruments to support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA’s) Geostationary ...

A $32 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument package set for launch Feb. 9 by NASA should help scientists better understand the violent effects of the Sun on near-Earth space weather ...

While supercomputers, radar and ground-based observations all play crucial roles, it is satellites that have truly transformed our ability to monitor the atmosphere on a global scale. But how do they ...