House and Senate proposals for NASA’s fiscal year 2022 science budget mostly track the administration’s request, providing particularly significant funding increases for the Planetary Science and Earth Science Divisions. Appropriators have sent mixed signals about the fate of the airborne SOFIA telescope, which NASA has proposed to terminate.
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Waldrop Leads $75 Million NASA Mission to Investigate Earth’s Atmosphere
January 28, 2021 GMT
Lara Waldrop, assistant professor of electrical & computer engineering, University of Illinois
URBANA, Ill. - January 28, 2021 - ( Newswire.com )
University of Illinois Electrical & Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Lara Waldrop has been selected by NASA to lead the development of a $75 million satellite that ultimately may help protect technology like satellite electronics, radio communication, electric power distribution, and even air travel from the dangers of solar storms.
Waldrop’s Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) Science Mission of Opportunity, titled “Global Lyman-alpha Imager of the Dynamic Exosphere,” or “GLIDE” for short, was chosen for implementation after a competitive selection process and is expected to be launched in 2025. GLIDE will make unprecedented measure