Menu

Blog

Nov 7, 2018

NASA ICON spacecraft launches Wednesday to explore ionosphere

Posted by in categories: solar power, space travel, sustainability

On Wednesday, November 7, NASA will launch its Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft to study the ionosphere. This boundary lies between space and Earth, being home to a “sea” of charged electrons and ions; it reacts to both lower atmosphere weather and solar energy, the result being space weather. NASA’s ICON will study this, offering unprecedented scientific data.

Read more

Comments are closed.