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Small NASA Satellite Could Reveal How Lightning Impacts Space Weather

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NASA’s CANVAS CubeSat will study very-low-frequency radio waves from lightning and human transmitters, tracking how energy moves through the ionosphere into the magnetosphere to improve space weather models and protect satellites.NASA’s CANVAS CubeSat will study very-low-frequency radio waves from lightning and human transmitters, tracking how energy moves through the ionosphere into the magnetosphere to improve space weather models and protect satellites.