These high-energy particles in space make up what are known as the Van Allen radiation belts, and their discovery ... the Milky Way galaxy, or beyond. After Explorer 1 launched, though, they ...

World-renowned Greek astrophysicist Stamatios Krimigis says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.

There is another possible source though: the Van Allen radiation belt, a ring of charged particles ... producing enough sheer forces to rip each galaxy apart from the inside out.

These belts, located between the two permanent Van Allen belts, surprised scientists with their composition and lifespan. The May 2024 solar storm created two additional radiation belts, sandwiched ...

including record-breaking signal tracking from the Global Navigation Satellite System and radiation measurements through the Van Allen Belts. With the hardest part behind them, Firefly is now ...

This included signal tracking from the Global Navigation Satellite System at a record-breaking distance with the LuGRE payload, radiation tolerant computing through the Van Allen Belts with the ...

They sit in a toroidal or donut shape around the planet but the mysteries about what gives Van Allen’s belts their shape is one of the big questions still being researched today. Another big ...

Meanwhile, the RadPC payload focused on testing a radiation-tolerant computer as it passed through the highly charged Van Allen Belts (which surround Earth). Additionally, the LMS payload measured ...

Science conducted during the journey also included radiation tolerant computing through the Van Allen Belts with the Radiation-Tolerant Computer System payload and measurements of magnetic field ...