The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), together with Boeing and Iridium Communications, has successfully demonstrated a new system to monitor space weather.
The active magnetosphere and planetary electrodynamics response experiment (AMPERE) provides real-time magnetic field measurements using commercial satellites as part of a new observation network to forecast weather in space.
AMPERE principal investigator Brian Anderson said that solar storms could disrupt satellite service, damage telecommunications networks, cause power grid blackouts and even endanger high-altitude aircraft.
“The timing for AMPERE is just right because we need this system both to help us understand how solar storms disturb the space environment and to develop reliable monitoring and forecasts of major space weather storms,” he said.
Boeing handles data collection, processing and packaging from the Iridium satellite fleet for AMPERE and transfers the magnetic field samples to the Science Data Center at APL, where the data is processed to yield globally integrated views of Earth’s space environment.
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