A fleet of sentinel spacecraft, including one with a huge solar sail, could watch out for sneaky “space tornadoes” posing a threat to Earth during solar storms, a new study suggests. The proposal says that four deep-space spacecraft, collectively called Space Weather Investigation Frontier (SWIFT), could speed up “space weather” warnings by 40%. While three spacecraft would be powered by …
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