{"id":332948,"date":"2017-06-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9c322f894062870770820ec9a4cc3565"},"modified":"2017-06-19T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T08:00:00","slug":"space-is-a-risky-place-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=332948","title":{"rendered":"Space is a risky place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/05\/space_is_a_risky_place\/16959805-1-eng-GB\/Space_is_a_risky_place_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nJuha-Pekka Luntama, responsible for development of a new space-weather warning capability within ESA&#8217;s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme, explains the origins of space weather and why we need to keep an eye on our Sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStefan Kraft, study manager for a future solar observing missions, explains why international cooperation make sense when dealing with something as big as a star.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOur Sun emits magnetised plasma \u2013 \u2018solar wind\u2019 \u2013 and periodically ejects billions of tons of matter threaded with a magnetic field in coronal mass ejections; these influence the space environment and can cause geomagnetic storms, affecting satellites, infrastructure on ground and human health.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Europe\u2019s economy today, numerous sectors are potentially affected by space weather, ranging from space-based telecommunications, broadcasting, weather services and navigation through to power distribution and terrestrial communications, especially at northern latitudes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Space_Situational_Awareness\/Space_Weather_-_SWE_Segment\">More information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/05\/space_is_a_risky_place\/16959805-1-eng-GB\/Space_is_a_risky_place_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nJuha-Pekka Luntama, responsible for development of a new space-weather warning capability within ESA&#8217;s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme, explains the origins of space weather and why we need to keep an eye on our Sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStefan Kraft, study manager for a future solar observing missions, explains why international cooperation make sense when dealing with something as big as a star.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOur Sun emits magnetised plasma &ndash; &lsquo;solar wind&rsquo; &ndash; and periodically ejects billions of tons of matter threaded with a magnetic field in coronal mass ejections; these influence the space environment and can cause geomagnetic storms, affecting satellites, infrastructure on ground and human health.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Europe&rsquo;s economy today, numerous sectors are potentially affected by space weather, ranging from space-based telecommunications, broadcasting, weather services and navigation through to power distribution and terrestrial communications, especially at northern latitudes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Space_Situational_Awareness\/Space_Weather_-_SWE_Segment\">More information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332949,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332948\/revisions\/332949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}