Important issue that needs more study space.com/deorbiting-imp…

Tonight's solar eclipse offers a unique opportunity for Uni of Birmingham researchers to study its impacts on earth's near space environment. David Themens Sean Elvidge College of Engineering & Physical Sciences birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/unlo…

Finally finished manually trudging through the ionospheric radar data. As the moon blocks the radiation from the sun, the ionosphere quickly dissipates at lower altitudes, with the higher altitudes lagging slightly behind.

Also announced: a JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut will fly with NASA to become the first non-American to set foot on the Moon

#OnThisDay in 1962, the first ever British-American satellite, Ariel 1 was launched. 🛰️ Named after the character from The Tempest, it was created to study the ionosphere. Meant to operate for a year, its lifespan was extended after radiation disabled its timer.

A lot of excitement tonight with the multiple CMEs arriving! If you are interested in the impacts the storm has on the ionosphere in (very) near real time (updated every 5 mins) then you can checkout our (@UoBSERENE's) model here: serene.bham.ac.uk/output/

Running what's turning out to be a beautiful lower ionospheric run on the UHF and VHF EISCAT radars in Tromso this morning. Luckily the solar energetic proton (SEP) event has held out long enough for us to get good measurements.

Delighted to be on board!

On the last day of COSPAR 2024 Matthew Brown presented on the impacts of climate change on the orbital debris environment and Josh Ruck presented on a new way to use research radars to assess the performance of over-the-horizon radar systems.

Next Wednesday 31 is the deadline to submit abstracts for AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting in Washington DC. If you work on impacts of climate change from the stratosphere to the top of the atmosphere, including space debris issues, submit an abstract to our session. agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel…

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🚨 We’re actively monitoring and analyzing the breakup event in #LEO involving a Chinese rocket body, CZ-6A. Our radar data indicates this event occurred on 6 August at ~20:10 UTC at ~810 km. It resulted in at least 700 debris fragments and potentially more than 900.

🚨Slingshot Orbital Alert 🚨 Slingshot Aerospace has detected what appears to be a breakup of the ATLAS 5 CENTAUR Rocket Body in a highly elliptical orbit (HEO). This rocket delivered GOES 17 into orbit on March 1st, 2018.

This is important research as we try and get a better understanding of how spacd objects break up on atmospheric reentry and what impact that might have on the upper atmosphere spacenews.com/the-aerospace-…

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Good morning to all The MISTy people who are up early to make their way to Birmingham for the annual #AutumnMIST. This is the first year where we are holding it outside of London and we are excited to welcome the MIST community for a day of science! 🤩

.UK Space Agency deputy CEO, Chris White-Horne, says the last of the ~1,500 trackable debris items from Russia's anti-satellite test (ASAT) re-entered Earth's atmosphere last week.

Just how aerodynamic is Santa? 🎅 As NORAD tracks Santa’s global progress in delivering presents on Christmas Eve, researchers from our Space Environment Research Group look into his route and how it's perfectly optimised for reducing atmospheric drag! birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/how-…