{"id":239328,"date":"2026-06-19T10:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/nasa-selects-mission-to-study-space-weather-interaction-with-earths-atmosphere"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:12:11","slug":"nasa-selects-mission-to-study-space-weather-interaction-with-earths-atmosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/nasa-selects-mission-to-study-space-weather-interaction-with-earths-atmosphere","title":{"rendered":"NASA selects mission to study space weather interaction with Earth\u2019s atmosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-selects-mission-to-study-space-weather-interaction-with-earths-atmosphere.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 NASA has selected for development a space science mission that will study how space weather interacts with Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>NASA announced June 18 that the Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer, or DAPHNE, mission will proceed into the next phase of development, with a launch planned for no earlier than 2029.<\/p>\n<p>DAPHNE was one of three concepts selected by NASA for study in 2024 for a mission concept called Dynamical Neutral Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, or DYNAMIC, that was recommended by the heliophysics decadal survey in 2013 to examine the coupling between regions of the atmosphere and space weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 NASA has selected for development a space science mission that will study how space weather interacts with Earth\u2019s atmosphere. NASA announced June 18 that the Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer, or DAPHNE, mission will proceed into the next phase of development, with a launch planned for no earlier than 2029. DAPHNE was one of three [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239328","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=239328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}