A “cosmic carpool” is traveling to a distant space weather observation post
via arstechnica.com
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Scientists loaded three missions worth nearly $1.6 billion on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for launch Wednesday, toward an orbit nearly a million miles from Earth, to measure the supersonic stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun. One of the missions, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), will beam back real-time observations […]