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Acknowledging the threat of solar activity and solar maximum, the company noted: "As a global satellite operator, we are prepared to fly our satellites in the varied conditions of space. The recent solar flares, although powerful, are a highly predictable 'weather' condition, and we expect no impact to our fleet....
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Scientific data gathering confirmed what the unscientific observer could have suspected auroras were most frequent in the high latitudes of Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska, and Greenland, forming a ring that is tilted slightly toward North America due to the location of Earth's magnetic North Pole in northern Canada.
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The worst year for large solar flares was 1991, with 8 of the 23 flares in the record books. The latest flare in a solar cycle occurred in May 1984, more than four years after solar maximum.
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The event caused "consternation at the generating works, where all efforts to discover the cause were fruitless." According to British meteorologists of the time, the streetcar and telegraph troubles were attributable to sunspots and solar activity, "which would also account for the unusual wet season now being experienced." Chapter 8: A Tough Pace to Work 1. In 1999 the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratory announced that it was awarding a $1 million contract to a company to develop a radiation-hardened Pentium-powered computer board.
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Gautam Badhwar died suddenly in August 2001 at the age of 60. He was in the midst of leading two major experiments in radiation effects in space, with instruments on the International Space Station and the Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
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Despite the fact that all of the spacecraft were working, the agency decided that official coordination of the individual missions was a scientific luxury it could no longer afford in a tough budget environment. The Wind spacecraft was slated for a sort of space storage as a backup to ACE, and NASA withdrew its support for Wind's science investigators and for the American participants in Japan's Geotail mission.
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