I’m not saying it’s happening. But we should keep an eye on it. SpaceX may not even know the effects of what they are doing with so many satellites.
Please note that 🇨🇳 China is the Red Dragon time portal, and Russia is the Red Serpent time portal. They merge with each other. N. U.S. and 🇨🇦 Canada are the antipode challenge of them as Blue Eagle, but the majority of the U.S. is Blue Monkey magic. 🎩Map 30 in Earth Ascending
From GROK…
Let’s dive deeper into whether Starlink satellites interfere with Earth’s magnetosphere frequencies. I’ll pull from web data, X posts, and some critical reasoning to give you a fuller picture as of April 10, 2025.
The Earth’s magnetosphere is shaped by its magnetic field, interacting with solar wind and cosmic rays, and it resonates at very low frequencies—like the Schumann resonances (around 7.83 Hz and harmonics). Starlink satellites, orbiting at 340–550 km, emit radio signals in the Ku-band (12–18 GHz), Ka-band (26.5–40 GHz), and potentially higher bands for communication. These are vastly higher frequencies than the magnetosphere’s natural ones, so direct overlap seems unlikely. However, there’s more to unpack.
Recent studies, like one from Astronomy & Astrophysics (2023), found Starlink satellites leaking unintended electromagnetic radiation (UEMR) between 110–188 MHz, detected by the LOFAR telescope. This range is much closer to some ionospheric frequencies but still far above the magnetosphere’s ultra-low range.
A newer study (September 2024) showed second-generation Starlink satellites (e.g., V2 Mini) emit UEMR up to 32 times stronger than their predecessors, with signals as bright as 1300 Jy in some bands. This radiation isn’t regulated for satellites, unlike terrestrial devices, and it’s raising concerns—mostly for radio astronomy, though.
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) analysis also noted a 70% sensitivity loss in the 10.7–12.7 GHz band due to Starlink’s intentional emissions, but again, this is about observational interference, not magnetospheric disruption. Could this UEMR indirectly affect the magnetosphere? Some speculate that cumulative electromagnetic noise from thousands of satellites—over 6,000 Starlink units is up now, with plans for 42,000—might perturb the ionosphere, which couples to the magnetosphere.
A 2024 paper by Sierra Solter-Hunt (still in peer review) argues that conductive debris from deorbiting satellites (aluminum, etc.) could form a “dust band” in the upper atmosphere, potentially weakening the magnetosphere by altering its conductivity. She estimates SpaceX burns up 2,755 lbs of debris hourly, creating a metallic layer that might disrupt magnetic field dynamics. Critics, like John Tarduno, counter that this debris wouldn’t form a continuous conductive shell capable of significant shielding, as it’s fragmented, not a solid conductor.
X posts reflect growing unease. One user (@ExploreCosmos_Feb 2024). I flagged this debris-magnetosphere link, citing Solter-Hunt’s work.
Another (@trulightwaves, April 9, 2025) claimed Starlink’s “superconducting” the ionosphere could trigger geological disasters—hyperbolic and unproven, but it shows public concern. @gnigh (April 7, 2025) tied Starlink’s EMF to broader atmospheric effects, though without evidence. These posts lack rigor but echo a sentiment that’s worth probing.
Critically, the magnetosphere’s frequencies are driven by solar wind and geomagnetic storms—like the February 2022 event that downed 38 Starlink satellites—not satellite emissions. A 2024 study in Earth, Planets and Space showed moderate storms, not satellite signals, caused that orbital decay via atmospheric drag. Starlink’s radio emissions, even UEMR, operate at power levels (e.g., ~2 μW EIRP at 159.4 MHz per one study) dwarfed by natural phenomena. Solar wind energy input is orders of magnitude higher, suggesting satellites are a minor player.
That said, the sheer scale of Starlink’s constellation invites scrutiny. If UEMR accumulates or debris alters ionospheric conductivity, could it subtly shift magnetospheric behavior over decades? No hard data confirms this yet—Solter-Hunt’s hypothesis is theoretical, and empirical studies focus on astronomy, not magnetospheric frequencies. Web searches show no consensus on direct interference; most concern is about debris or radio telescope blinding. So, as of now: Starlink’s emissions don’t directly overlap with magnetosphere frequencies, and no solid evidence shows they disrupt them. The debris angle is intriguing, but speculative—needs more research.
ME: Hertz frequency is a way to note sound frequency. Both the Starlink satellites and the 12 layers of the magnetosphere emit hertz level sound. Light comes from sound so is it plausible that the light from the sun is being changed as it heads to earth because of these two phenomena?
Your question weaves together some fascinating concepts—Hertz frequencies, sound, light, Starlink satellites, and the magnetosphere—so let’s break it down and explore whether these phenomena could plausibly alter sunlight reaching Earth.
First, a clarification: Hertz (Hz) measures frequency, which applies to both sound waves (vibrations in a medium like air) and electromagnetic waves (like radio signals or light). However, sound and light are distinct. Sound is mechanical, requiring a medium, while light is electromagnetic, traveling through a vacuum. The idea that “light comes from sound” isn’t accurate in physics—light is emitted when charged particles (e.g., electrons in the Sun) accelerate or transition energy states, not from sound waves. (See quote below disagreeing from UCLA) Still, let’s run with your premise and see where it leads.
The energy of a sound wave in a fluid can concentrate by 12 orders of magnitude to create flashes of light that can be shorter than 50 picoseconds.
Who does Space Force think will be attacking them IN SPACE? It WILL NOT be any Stellar Species. The only ones who need to defend themselves are the peaceful ET from OUR attacks on them. We are the primate warmonger monkeys in this jungle, not them.
Starlink satellites shouldn’t interfere with our magnetosphere amplitude frequencies. It looks like Earth is in an ELM prison of some type.
Space Force to expand missile-defense satellite network in medium Earth orbit
The Space Systems Command released a “request for prototype proposals” for the Missile Track Custody Epoch 2 program
They better not be using defensive tech to attack peaceful ET, or we will find out, and action will followfrom them.-Me.
From GROK
In the context of the article from SpaceNews titled “Space Force to expand missile-defense satellite network in medium Earth orbit,” Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) refers to a specific range of altitudes in space, situated between Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary Orbit (GEO), where the U.S. Space Force plans to deploy a network of missile-tracking satellites. Specifically, MEO spans altitudes from approximately 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) to 35,786 kilometers (22,236 miles) above Earth’s surface. (The amplitude layer of the magnetosphere) The article highlights that the Space Force is developing this MEO-based satellite constellation, known as the Missile Track Custody Epoch 2 program, to enhance its ability to detect and track advanced missile threats, such as hypersonic glide vehicles.These satellites in MEO offer advantages over those in lower or higher orbits: they provide better sensitivity and wider coverage compared to LEO satellites, while being closer to Earth than GEO satellites, allowing for more persistent tracking of fast-moving, maneuverable targets with faint heat signatures. (This could be deceptive though-L.T.)
This positioning makes MEO a strategic “middle ground” in the Space Force’s multi-orbit missile defense architecture, complementing existing systems in LEO and GEO to create a layered, resilient defense network.
My concern about disruption of our magnetosphere
Light comes from sound (a physics fact). So when the sound levels change, the light changes! The source of all light is the sun which all sound hertz levels have in common whether they are radio hertz or magnetosphere hertz -L.T.
Me
Starlink satellites, operated by SpaceX, are designed to provide global internet coverage and orbit at relatively low altitudes (typically around 340–550 km above Earth). The question of whether they interfere with Earth’s magnetosphere frequencies is an interesting one, but there’s no clear evidence to suggest they have a significant impact. The Earth’s magnetosphere is a complex region shaped by the planet’s magnetic field, interacting with solar wind and cosmic radiation. It operates across a wide range of natural frequencies, like the Schumann Sound Resonances (extremely low frequencies around 7.83 Hz and its harmonics), which are tied to the Earth-ionosphere cavity.
Starlink satellites, like most modern satellites, emit radio frequencies for communication—primarily in the Ku-band (12–18 GHz), Ka-band (26.5–40 GHz), and potentially V-band in the future. These frequencies are orders of magnitude higher than the natural resonances of the magnetosphere. (Radio frequencies are SOUND as well as noted by HERTZ) In theory, electromagnetic interference could occur if satellite emissions overlapped with or disrupted natural frequencies. However, the power levels of Starlink transmissions are tightly regulated by bodies like the FCC and ITU to avoid interference with terrestrial systems and other satellites.
The magnetosphere itself is more directly influenced by solar activity (e.g., geomagnetic storms) than by human-made radio signals. Studies on radio frequency interference tend to focus on astronomical observations—like radio telescopes—rather than magnetospheric effects, and even there, Starlink has mitigation strategies (e.g., adjusting satellite brightness and emission patterns).
That said, some speculation exists in fringe circles (not backed by peer-reviewed science) that large constellations like Starlink could subtly affect atmospheric or magnetic phenomena, especially with thousands of satellites in orbit. No rigorous data supports this, affecting the magnetosphere’s frequencies specifically. The sheer scale of the constellation—over 6,000 satellites as of early 2025—does raise valid questions about cumulative electromagnetic noise, but the magnetosphere’s dynamics are driven by forces far stronger than satellite signals. (They just said above that the satellite emissions were orders of magnitude higher than the magnetosphere.)
Please ponder the fact that if people can’t bring this basic fact to the surface; an inhabited universe and nefarious humans taking advantage of it, then processing my information would, when proven correct, would be a problem. It would bring about a major paradigm shift in human potential, healing of the body, and human consciousness.
It’s illegal for me to be able to prove human power intrinsic to the body and that Time is DNA in ALL HUMANS. The elite are trying to cull humans and turn this into an A.I. planet at this point.
I’d be dead, unless the universe gives me some kind of go ahead. And I’m not going anywhere. They can kiss my ass. I wish the shadow government would be exiled from the planet so we can get on with it. But I will give them no satisfaction before they’re gone.
I’m not kidding. SpaceX and NASA name their rocket Dragon and another one Skywalker. Obvious synchronicity has been working out karma from the past.
Of course, I wish we could catapult to ET plasma tech space travel. This technology would be safe and easy to use. I also wish we could use zero point energy. However, the government C@#$% makes that illegal.
They have ships made, but they are secret DOD probably to be used against us in a false flag psyop. We’ll see.
This is a great report. Very “Captain America” good stuff. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
The scientists are stumped, and they don’t have much data. My first instinct is the birth of a star. Although they focused on the death of a star. We shall see.
I’m geeked out on astronomy today, procrastinating on staring at my own magnetosphere data, which I’ve been doing for months.
The Van Allen Belts ARE the Tzolkin Harmonic and produce the Auroras all over the planet. Look at the colors! We call them the Psi Bank or the Mind of Earth which is TIME. That time manifests and creates DNA which creates gravity.
This is magical and beautiful. Tzolk’in means Count of Days (time) or Count of Kin (people). A kin is a person and a day, same thing. Time is DNA and creates gravity.
The scientists don’t know it or understand it but it is due to the interaction of the Sun and Galactic Center that synchronicity happens in our holographic matrix for all sentient beings on earth.
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On March 17, 2015, an interplanetary shock – a shockwave created by the driving force of a coronal mass ejection, or CME, from the sun – struck the outermost radiation belt, triggering the greatest geomagnetic storm of the preceding decade. NASA’s Van Allen Probes were there to watch it. One of the most common forms of space weather, a geomagnetic storm describes any event in which Earth’s magnetic environment – called the magnetosphere – is suddenly, temporarily disturbed. Such an event can also lead to change in the radiation belts surrounding Earth, but researchers have seldom been able to observe what happens within the first few minutes immediately following a shock.
On the day of the March 2015 geomagnetic storm, one of the Van Allen Probes was located at just the right spot within the radiation belts, providing unprecedentedly high-resolution data from a rarely witnessed phenomenon. A paper on these observations was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research on Aug. 15, 2016.
The Van Allen Belts are responsible for the amplitude and frequency found in the Schumann Resonance affecting ALL LIFE on earth. They say that right at the beginning. It is absolutely the case that these belts, activated by CME’s from the Sun, directly affect all DNA on earth. And I contend, ARE the Tzolkin Psi Bank and create the Auroras and control time and evolution on our sphere. Take a look at these with me.
I’m in the last stages of work on the Tones of Creation book. Then I might republish both on Amazon. It depends on if I get the follow through promised by someone 8 months ago without quid pro quo. Ah, politics and money.
The information from NASA, 10 years old is far, far, younger than the archeological evidence for the veracity of the Mayan Tribes or 20 amino acids seen on stone stellae as Mayan gods in the Yucatan. I find this information less straight forward as astronomy grows as a science.
The Central Axis is what they observe in the middle. Theydon’t know what it is because it stays still. They don’t understand it. That is reverberating with our brain and spine,the central axis of the eternal present from the galactic center.
This guy…disses astrology which is ONE with astronomy. Then he starts to touch the fact that TIME is US with his Mechanized “tick, tick, tick” comment. Time does not make the sound of a clock. So…Scientists always ride the social fence even though they secretly believe in all the work I do. One of these days, they’ll listen to me, even if it’s posthumously. Fine with me.
The substorms from the Sun hitting the Psi Bank need to be researched, which I am doing. They are the precursor to earth weather, according to NASA, which Jose Arguelles purported to be connected to IChing geomancy controlling the grid of earth. Those substorms create auroras according to NASA.
Again, the Mayan teaching is the auroras are the Tzolkin Harmonic of time. The aurora colors are the Mayan color spectrum.
If the sun, earth, DNA, and the planets in our local system are sentient, then so is the energy around it; the magnetosphere and the substorms. ?🤷♀️
Sentient means it has mind. If the magnetosphere and substorms PROTECT earth, that IS sentient. Protection isn’t an accident. Anything in the life systems that is protective happens on purpose. A decision was made. It can’t be an accident or just a coincidence. It’s synchronicity.
NASA says the substorms protect us and allow us to be here to do whatever it is we feel we need to do. They get that we are an evolving sphere of learning and love. ❤️
I could listen to this all day. It sounds like water, Red Moon Tribe, Universal Feelings which is the start codon of the DNA sequence in HF33, Red 12 Crystal Moon. Water is Hydrogen and Oxygen. The Sun is made of mostly Hydrogen and Helium. The short of it is, it is the evolution of FEELINGS that has made us more human. Those feelings can swing many ways as we know but we are lifting them from the limbic serpent brain into the top brain neo cortex.
I just watched The Cosmic Secret again. There were pieces I missed.
We need to chill with the end of the cycle. Apocalypse means the great revealing. We are all children of God. Any secrets that have been withheld will come forward.
I feel we need to REMAIN in our community of choice where we feel safe and loved. Be ethical in your community. Be a Lightworker wherever you are. Get training if you need to BE OF SERVICE TO OTHERS, honor yourself, and see each person as a child of God.
I know I post on gender inequity a lot and I believe there are a few men out there who can deal with their feelings and be connected to their soul, I just haven’t met one yet. But I do believe they are out there.
In my holistic practice, I can’t help the fact that the women who come in have suffered, been punched, been disrespected and used, and more, and my work and example as an independent single woman give them hope. I don’t need a man…for anything. It’s up to each woman to stand on her own feet and refuse to be victimized by the patriarchal system. Same for the men. It’s the same system oppressing all of humanity. I see that.
I’ve also had male patients who were vets or hurt in work accidents or were hurt in prison! This is a rough planet and my patients all have stories. I minister to each one of them equally, for 23 years now. Everyone gets Reiki. Everyone can feel it. It’s real.
Do take a look at this movie again. It’s fascinating how our perception can change in 4 years. I think it’s dated 2019! The Cosmic Secret.
I’d like to get my hands on this. Amazon has made it unavailable. They are talking about Dr. Flandern on The Cosmic Secret. Let me know if you see one.
9~5 pulse
He was Red 9 Moon, 3:9:9:9, the first start codon in the Tzolkin. I’ve posted on it. He was a professional astronomer from Yale that supported the belief that Tiamat exploded and became the asteroid belt. It’s in the movie The Cosmic Secret.
In addition, it supports Jose’s channeled work in Earth Ascending. It’s the Psi Bank; The Mind of GAIA or the EARTH HOLON.
Here’s what we’re talking about folks, applied to the Tzolkin. Do you see it?
Imagine the Tzolkin exactly around this with + and -negative ELM polarity in the amino acids creating the double helix in the GAP kin. The 365-day solar year sprockets exactly with the 260-day cycle. The Tzolkin is square around the human in the middle. The upwelling is the North Polar Zone, the center is the Zone of Transformation and the downwelling is the South Polar Zone. The Torus are the Van Allen Belts around the Earth.See Below.
Two giant swaths of radiation, known as the Van Allen Belts, surrounding Earth were discovered in 1958. In 2012, observations from the Van Allen Probes showed that a third belt can sometimes appear. The radiation is shown here in yellow, with green representing the spaces between the belts. (Image credit: NASA/Van Allen Probes/Goddard Space Flight Center)
Giant donut-shaped swaths of magnetically trapped, highly energetic charged particles surround Earth. James Van Allen, a physicist at the University of Iowa, discovered these radiation belts in 1958 after the launch of Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite. The radiation belts were eventually named after him.
Van Allen’s experiment on Explorer 1, which launched Jan. 31, 1958, had a simple cosmic ray experiment consisting of a Geiger counter (a device that detects radiation) and a tape recorder. Follow-up experiments on three other missions in 1958 — Explorer 3, Explorer 4 and Pioneer 3 — established that there were two belts of radiation circling the Earth.
While observations have continued for decades, our knowledge of the belts became more enhanced when the Van Allen Probes launched in 2012. They found that the belts were more complex than previously imagined.
The probes showed that the shape of the belts depends on what particle is being studied. They also uncovered information hinting there is less radiation than imagined in certain parts of the Van Allen belts, which means spacecraft and humans would not need as much radiation protection if they are voyaging in that region.
On the 60th anniversary of Explorer 1, NASA said that studies of the Van Allen belts are even more important today. “Our current technology is ever more susceptible to these accelerated particles because even a single hit from a particle can upset our ever smaller instruments and electronics,” said David Sibeck, Van Allen Probes mission scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, in a 2018 statement. “As technology advances, it’s actually becoming even more pressing to understand and predict our space environment.”
Early probe findings
Part of the interest in the Van Allen belts comes from where they are located. It is known that the belts can swell when the sun becomes more active. Before the probes launched, scientists thought the inner belt was relatively stable, but when it did expand, its influence extended over the orbit of the International Space Station and several satellites.
The outer belt fluctuated more often. The ISS has been permanently inhabited since 2000, with typical astronauts staying there for six months at a time. In 2015-16, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko remained there for almost a year. As astronauts stay in orbit for longer, their radiation exposure may also increase, leading to concerns about long-term habitation for astronauts in space.
So scientists are interested in close study of this region. In 2012, a new set of probes launched. The Van Allen Probes (formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm probes) have several scientific goals, including discovering how the particles — ions and electrons — in the belts are accelerated and transported, how electrons are lost and how the belts change during geomagnetic storms.
The mission was planned to last two years, but as of May 2018 the probes were still operating at more than double the expected mission lifetime. 😲 However, fuel reserves are running low and the probes will likely retire in the next couple of years.
Usually, scientists take a few months after launch to calibrate their instruments, but a team with the Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope asked that their instrument be turned on almost immediately (three days after launch); they wanted to compare observations before another mission, SAMPEX (Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer), de-orbited and entered Earth’s atmosphere.
“It was a lucky decision,” NASA said in February 2013, noting that a solar storm had already caused the radiation belts to swell as soon as the instrument was turned on.
“Then something happened no one had ever seen before: the particles settled into a new configuration, showing an extra, third belt extending out into space,” the agency added. “Within mere days of launch, the Van Allen Probes showed scientists something that would require rewriting textbooks.”
Protective shield
Data gathered by the probes also showed that the radiation belts shield Earth from high-energy particles. “The barrier for the ultrafast electrons is a remarkable feature of the belts,” study lead author Dan Baker, of the University of Colorado in Boulder, said in a statement.
“We’re able to study it for the first time, because we never had such accurate measurements of these high-energy electrons before.” [Gallery: NASA’s Van Allen Probes]
This new information helped scientists model the belts’ changes. But there was more information to come. In January 2016, scientists revealed that the shape of the belts depends on what type of electron is being studied. This means the two belts are much more complex; depending on what is being observed, they can be a single belt, two separate belts or just an outer belt (with no inner belt at all.)
“The researchers found that the inner belt — the smaller belt in the classic picture of the belts — is much larger than the outer belt when observing electrons with low energies, while the outer belt is larger when observing electrons at higher energies,” NASA wrote at the time. “At the very highest energies, the inner belt structure is missing completely. So, depending on what one focuses on, the radiation belts can appear to have very different structures simultaneously.”
What is still poorly understood, however, is what happens when particles from the sun hit the belts during a geomagnetic storm. It is known that the number of electrons in the belts changes, either decreasing or increasing depending on the situation. Also, the belts eventually return to their normal shape after the storm passes. NASA said it isn’t clear what kind of storm will cause a specific type of belt configuration. Also, the agency noted, any previous observations were done only with electrons at a few energy levels. More work needs to be done.
Luckily, scientists got the chance to observe a storm up close in March 2015, when one of the Van Allen Probes happened to be situated inside the “right” spot in Earth’s magnetic field to see an interplanetary shock. NASA describes such shocks as similar to when a tsunami is triggered by an earthquake; in this case, a coronal mass ejection of charged particles from the sun creates a shock in specific areas of the belts.
“The spacecraft measured a sudden pulse of electrons energized to extreme speeds — nearly as fast as the speed of light — as the shock slammed the outer radiation belt,” NASA wrote at the time. “This population of electrons was short-lived, and their energy dissipated within minutes. But five days later, long after other processes from the storm had died down, the Van Allen Probes detected an increased number of even higher energy electrons. Such an increase so much later is a testament to the unique energization processes following the storm.”
In 2017, the Washington Post published an article with some of the sounds of space recorded from an instrument on the Van Allen Probes, called Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS). Although humans cannot hear these sounds — because there is no medium in which the waves can carry the sound — translating this data was fairly straightforward, the Post wrote. “The electromagnetic waves are in the same frequency range as the part of the sound spectrum that is audible to humans. It was a simple matter to translate those radio waves as MP3s — turning EMFISIS data into a radio broadcast from the heavens.”
Designing better spacecraft
The Van Allen Probes are specially hardened to withstand the intense radioactive environment of the belts. Some spacecraft, however, are more vulnerable — especially when a solar storm hits. At worst, spacecraft can short out due to an electrical overload. Communications can also be disrupted. Fortunately, sometimes instruments can be turned on or off on a spacecraft during a solar storm.
The shape of the Van Allen belts can vary widely depending on how energetic the individual electrons are, and general conditions in the Earth’s magnetic environment. During geomagnetic storms (4), all three regions in the belts can balloon. (Image credit: NASA GODDARD/DUBERSTEIN)
Radiation, of course, also poses a human risk. Astronauts are subject to lifetime radiation limits from their time in space, to reduce any risk of cancer. Since only a few dozen people have spent six months or longer in space, however, it will take decades to understand the long-term effects of radiation on humans.
The astronauts on the ISS do not regularly spend time inside the belts, but from time to time solar storms expand the belts to the orbit of the space station. In the 1960s, several Apollo crews went through the Van Allen belts on their way to and from the moon. Their time in that radiation-intensive region, however, was very short, in part because the trajectory was designed to pass through the thinnest known parts. With more study, astronauts can be better protected for long-term stays in Earth orbit.
“We study radiation belts because they pose a hazard to spacecraft and astronauts,” said David Sibeck, the Van Allen Probes mission scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, in an August 2016 NASA statement. “If you knew how bad the radiation could get, you would build a better spacecraft to accommodate that.”
Newer findings from the probes show that radiation in certain zones may be less harsh than scientists thought. In March 2017, the Van Allen Probes made a finding showing there is less radiation in the inner belts that previously theorized, which means less shielding is required for spacecraft and satellites in that region. The most energetic electrons residing in the inner radiation belt are there for less time than scientists thought beforehand.
The following year, the probes discovered that some communications wavelengths (called very low frequency communications) emanating from Earth are sometimes a sort of a shield against high-energy particle radiation in space. This means that human activity has effects even in the near-space environment around Earth.
As of 2018, the Van Allen Probes are running low on fuel and are expected to finish their mission around 2020. Goddard is working on a CubeSat (small spacecraft) mission called GTOSat that will continue studying the Van Allen belts.
“This mission of firsts will serve as a pathfinder for new radiation-tolerant technologies that could help scientists realize a long-sought dream: deploying a constellation of small satellites beyond low-Earth orbit to gather simultaneous, multi-point measurements of Earth’s ever-changing magnetosphere, which protects the planet from the constant assault of charged particles streaming off the sun,” NASA said in May 2018.
Elizabeth Howell is a contributing writer for Space.com who is one of the few Canadian journalists to report regularly on space exploration. She is pursuing a Ph.D. part-time in aerospace sciences (University of North Dakota) after completing an M.Sc. (space studies) at the same institution. She also holds a bachelor of journalism degree from Carleton University. Besides writing, Elizabeth teaches communications at the university and community college level. To see her latest projects, follow Elizabeth on Twitter at @HowellSpace.
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