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The 57th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium

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The 2019 Goddard Symposium will examine both the history and future of the science and technology of exploring our home planet, our solar system, and beyond. Join us at our new venue in Silver Spring, Maryland, for the 57th annual Goddard Symposiu…

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NASA selects space weather experiment for ISS

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NASA has selected a space weather experiment to fly to the International Space Station as the agency’s heliophysics program seeks to strike a balance between large and small missions.

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NASA examines effects of 2017 spending bill on science programs

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As members of Congress took credit for NASA funding levels in a fiscal year 2017 omnibus spending bill, the agency’s science leadership is examining how those funds will affect its programs.

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NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft captured this image of several large solar prominences on the edge of the sun. Credit: NASA

Heliophysics Small Explorer Solicitation Set for First Half of 2016

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The agency expects to release a draft solicitation by the end of the year for the $115 million mission, which would notionally launch in 2022.

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Within NASA, the Heliophysics department has gotten a head start using cubesats for science. One researcher used data from the NSF-funded Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment (above) to double check data from a NASA balloon mission. Credit: Credit: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder

Why Heliophysicists are Taking a Shine to Cubesats

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Within NASA, the Heliophysics Division is leading the way when it comes to cubesats that yield useful scientific data. That is partly because the latest Heliophysics decadal, a 10-year science roadmap published in 2012, is much newer than those for the other three NASA science divisions.

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NASA Mulls Participation in Sino-European Small Space Mission

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U.S. law forbids bilateral cooperation between NASA and China, so the U.S. agency would funnel its contribution to the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer through ESA.

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An X2.7 class solar flare flashes on the edge of the sun on May 5, 2015. This image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and shows a blend of light from the 171 and 131 Ångström wavelengths. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Solar Dynamics Observatory

Clarke Succeeds Chenette as NASA Heliophysics Director

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Steven Clarke will take over as director of NASA’s roughly $600 million heliophysics division effective June 1, the agency said.

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NASA Taps Delta 4 Heavy for Solar Probe Plus Launch

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That launch, valued at $389 million, will also use a Star-48 upper-stage motor provided by Orbital ATK.

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NASA Gives the Green Light to $200 Million ICON Mission

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NASA approved ICON, a small heliophysics mission set to launch no later than October 2017, to proceed into development, the agency announced Nov. 12.

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