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16 Years of GPS Space Weather Data Made Publicly Available

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 01 2017, @07:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the things-are-looking-up dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Over 16 years of GPS space weather data has been released to the public for the first time, in a bid to help boost understanding around radiation threats to Earth's satellites, communications networks, and aircraft. The 'unprecedented' collection of data, released by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, comes from space weather sensors onboard Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, which measure charged particles in Earth's magnetic field. The detailed measurements are expected to provide an invaluable resource for space weather research and for understanding how best to protect our critical infrastructure.

"Space weather monitoring instruments developed at Los Alamos have been fielded on GPS satellites for decades," explained Los Alamos program manager, Marc Kippen. "Today, 23 of the nation's more than 30 on-orbit GPS satellites carry these instruments. When you multiply the number of satellites collecting data with the number of years they've been doing it, it totals more than 167 satellite years. It's really an unprecedented amount of information."

Source:
https://thestack.com/big-data/2017/01/31/16-years-of-gps-space-weather-data-made-publicly-available/

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by NewNic on Wednesday February 01 2017, @07:47PM

    by NewNic (6420) on Wednesday February 01 2017, @07:47PM (#461757) Journal

    Over 16 years of GPS space weather data has been released to the public for the first time, in a bid to prevent the new administration from suppressing it.

    FTFY

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:00PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:00PM (#461763)

    Global space warming is definitely a hoax.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:08PM (#461765)

    Yeah, wrong data type there. The ionosphere is generally left out of the whole GW debacle. Not debate, we're quite a ways past that and no longer need to convince the mouth breathers that they're wrong. Thankfully most of the world is on board with increasing renewable and energy sources.

    • (Score: 2) by NewNic on Wednesday February 01 2017, @09:35PM

      by NewNic (6420) on Wednesday February 01 2017, @09:35PM (#461810) Journal

      Yeah, wrong data type there.

      You assume that this administration either knows or cares about the difference.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:25PM (#461770)

    That is funny, but it does turn out that the data was released by an Obama Executive Order from October.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @07:27AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 02 2017, @07:27AM (#461917)

      ...to prevent the new administration from suppressing it.