{"id":104580,"date":"2020-04-01T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/u-m-leads-62m-largest-radio-telescope-in-space-to-improve-solar-storm-warnings"},"modified":"2020-04-01T12:57:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T19:57:38","slug":"u-m-leads-62m-largest-radio-telescope-in-space-to-improve-solar-storm-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/u-m-leads-62m-largest-radio-telescope-in-space-to-improve-solar-storm-warnings","title":{"rendered":"U-M leads $62M \u2018largest radio telescope in space\u2019 to improve solar storm warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-m-leads-62m-largest-radio-telescope-in-space-to-improve-solar-storm-warnings2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/u-m-leads-62m-largest-radio-telescope-in-space-to-improve-solar-storm-warnings-particlestorm.png\" class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/u-m-leads-62m-largest-radio-telescope-in-space-to-improve-solar-storm-warnings2.jpg\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/u-m-leads-62m-largest-radio-telescope-in-space-to-improve-solar-storm-warnings-particlestorm-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/u-m-leads-62m-largest-radio-telescope-in-space-to-improve-solar-storm-warnings-particlestorm-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/u-m-leads-62m-largest-radio-telescope-in-space-to-improve-solar-storm-warnings-particlestorm-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/u-m-leads-62m-largest-radio-telescope-in-space-to-improve-solar-storm-warnings-particlestorm-1536x861.png 1536w, https:\/\/news.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/u-m-leads-62m-largest-radio-telescope-in-space-to-improve-solar-storm-warnings-particlestorm-2048x1147.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px)  100vw, 1024px\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\"><\/a>ANN ARBOR\u2014The most violent solar weather\u2014coronal mass ejections\u2014can flood space with high-energy particle radiation that would harm astronauts and damage spacecraft in its path..<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-selects-mission-to-study-causes-of-giant-solar-particle-storms\">$62.6 million NASA mission<\/a> led by the University of Michigan aims to provide better information on how the sun\u2019s radiation affects the space environment that our spacecraft and astronauts travel through.<\/p>\n<p>The Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment, or SunRISE, consists of miniature satellites called cubesats that form a \u201cvirtual telescope\u201d in space to detect and study the radio waves that precede major solar events. The waves can\u2019t be detected on Earth\u2019s surface due to interference from the region of Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANN ARBOR\u2014The most violent solar weather\u2014coronal mass ejections\u2014can flood space with high-energy particle radiation that would harm astronauts and damage spacecraft in its path.. A new $62.6 million NASA mission led by the University of Michigan aims to provide better information on how the sun\u2019s radiation affects the space environment that our spacecraft and astronauts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104586,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104580\/revisions\/104586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}