Lagrange 1 and 5 provide ideal observation points of the Sun for space weather.
Credit: NOAA
NASA has awarded a $231 million contract to BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems to build spacecraft to be stationed at Lagrange 1 to monitor the Sun’s coronal layer and solar winds. The space agency is contracting the two satellites on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s...
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