The Multi-Slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and HelioSwarm projects have been selected by the US space agency, to improve understanding of solar dynamics, the Sun-Earth connection, and the changing environment of outer space.
The mission will help improve space weather forecasts, such as solar flares generating geomagnetic storms in the atmosphere. This solar storm caused SpaceX to lose 40 of its Starlink satellites.
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The MUSE mission will cost around $192 million, and the HelioSwarm project involving nine spacecraft will cost $250 million.
“MUSE and HelioSwarm will provide new insights into the sun’s atmosphere and space weather,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Daily Mail, Saturday (12/2/2022).
The sun recently entered its active phase which ejected coronal mass and sent charged particles and radiation towards Earth. Known as Sun storm This event can trigger a geomagnetic storm in the Earth’s atmosphere.
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The two new missions will study various aspects of the sun, including storms and the environment in the solar system that impacts Earth.
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