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How does Mars have a Bow Shock and proton aurora? What is a hydrogen corona?

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What artificial satellite has the farthest orbit around the Earth?

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Where is the Wind going? Where has it been? (Global Geospace Science spacecraft 1994-071A)

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Why put DSCOVR in a Lissajous orbit? Wouldn't a halo orbit completely avoid the Sun exclusion zone?

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How many solar system bodies have had coherent radio transponders?

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What is the required burn to keep a satellite at a Lagrangian point?

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Could JWST stay at L2 "forever"?

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What was the first unplanned "over-the-air" software update of a spacecraft?

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Why was ISEE-3 "the most cost-effective spacecraft we ever had"?

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Are the JWST solar panels protected from solar flares?

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How large are the various forces and torques that the Parker Solar Probe will experience during its closest flyby of the Sun?

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Why put SunRISE in the graveyard? Why will it "fly slightly above geosynchronous orbit"?

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How do solar flares and coronal mass ejections create proton storms?

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How can a solar storm be predicted?

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Can "space weather" refer to deep space environments or only to Earth's (or another planet's) upper atmosphere?

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Can VLF be used to create a Mars barrier?

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Which objects in our solar system are naturally protected from solar flares?

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What would happen to an astronaut on the surface of Mars if a Carrington-event-like superflare hit the red planet?

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Why hasn't DSCOVR's trajectory determination been updated in JPL's Horizons after 2015-Aug-4?

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Did specific changes to DSCOVR's mission or design produce the change from "may not represent the best expenditure " to "strong and vital"?

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Why would a mission to Sun-Earth L1 have an instantaneous launch window?

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How was DSCOVR "fixed" so that sufficiently dynamic attitude determination is gotten from star cameras?

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What is the probability that a deep space crew is hit by a Solar proton storm?

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What is the story behind NICER's mission patch?

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Decision making for NASA missions

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If Juno will experience lower levels of radiation than Galileo did why it will fail so much faster?

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Where to read about early work in the detection of dust impacts on solar observing spacecraft?

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How does the Parker Solar Probe's heat shield protect it from dust near the sun?

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Did the Surveyor missions measure secondary radiation?

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What's the furthest a probe has travelled from Earth before returning?