Tag Archives: Satellites

Space Weather and Technology

The field of space physics is becoming extremely important due to society’s increasing reliance on technologies that can be affected by space weather. Aviation, GPS, internet, and the power grid are just a few examples of infrastructure that may be damaged or even destroyed in a large-scale space weather event. Posing potentially lethal hazards, this […] Continue reading

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Satellites and Telescopes

For this post I wanted to discuss the effect that satellites have on astronomical observations. There are many problems that limit our ability to make observations, such as light pollution, the diffraction limit, and technological limitations. Despite this, astronomers have steadily been improving their equipment and building new complex telescopes to overcome these limitations. However, […] Continue reading

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Going Up?

Space. Elevators. I know what you’re thinking- huh? What even are those? Those were my exact thoughts before I learned all about the concept of space elevators 10 minutes ago, and I’m going to share everything I learned with you. Rockets have been our only mode of transportation to space for quite a while, but… Continue reading

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Astronomical Satellites

Astronomical Satellites are observatories of some sort that are in orbit around Earth. These observatories vary greatly in specifically what and how they observe, but they all share the same rational for being in space, instead of on Earth. On … Continue reading Continue reading

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