The Threat of Space Weather

Abstract

Solar energetic particles (SEPs) and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) pose a significant threat to in-orbit satellites as well as to Earth’s infrastructure in terms of extensive damage that could be caused to the modern electronic grid, computer processes, telecommunications networks, all types of electronic devices (even pipelines) and essentially everything that can conduct electricity.

The World, the race, the soull—in space and time the universes,

All bound as benefitting each alll—surely going somewhere.

–Walt Whitman, On Going Somewhere