Van Allen Belts
NASA Launches Twin Probes to Study Earth’s Radiation Belts
After nearly a week of weather and technical delays, NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) launched in the early morning…
12 years ago
Newsreel Footage of Explorer 1
Here's a blast from the past: 54 years ago on January 31, 1958, Explorer 1 was the first satellite sent…
13 years ago
The Van Allen Belts and the Great Electron Escape
[/caption] During the 1950s and just before the great "Space Race" began, scientists like Kristian Birkeland, Carl Stormer, and Nicholas…
13 years ago