Living With a Star is a scientific initiative focused on understanding how solar variability affects Earth and the surrounding heliosphere. The program funds and coordinates missions that observe solar dynamics, radiation environments, and magnetic fields. Researchers rely on its data to predict space weather events that can disrupt satellite communications, navigation systems, and power grids.
The upcoming solar probe will add a critical data stream to the LWS portfolio before solar maximum.
Related terms
SOHO
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is a spacecraft dedicated to studying the internal structure and outer atmosphere of the Sun.
Space probe
An uncrewed robotic spacecraft sent to explore deep space.
RBSP
The Radiation Belt Storm Probes, a pair of NASA satellites designed to study the Van Allen radiation belts.