Smallsats Could Help Predict Solar Storms

Scientists have known for a century and a half that the Sun can be a destructive neighbor. In 1859 a solar storm observed by British astronomer Richard Carrington sent a cloud of charged particles slamming into Earth, overloading the new telegraph networks taking shape then. Some of them shut down...

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