Heliophysics

Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) is a NASA mission aimed at understanding how the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields connect and disconnect. These processes known as magnetic reconnection facilitate energy transfers that effect the Earth, Sun and universe. MMS sensors measure charged particle velocities and electric and magnetic fields. Four identical spacecraft orbit the …

Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit Satellite (GTOSat) The Geostationary Transfer Orbit Satellite (GTOSat) is a mission done in collaboration with NASA Langley Research Center, the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the Aerospace Corporation Inc. GTOSat’s primary goal is to advance the quantitative understanding of acceleration and loss of relativistic electrons in the Earth’s outer radiation belts. GTOSat …

Parker Solar Probe The NASA Parker Solar Probe mission is a mission designed to help humanity better understand the Sun, where changing conditions can propagate out into the solar system, affecting Earth and other worlds. As such, the primary goals are to examine the acceleration of solar wind through the movement of heat and energy …