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Smart Dust Could Give Early Warning of Space Storms
![[article image]](/system/assets/0000/2301/020910.nasa.solarflare.large.jpg?1265734153&1265734153 "Solar flare, headed our way")
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A SWARM of "smart dust" spacecraft, positioned at a sweet spot between the Earth and the sun, could alert us to the approach of dangerous space storms well before a conventional craft can. The first prototypes are due for launch into low-Earth orbit this year, perhaps as early as May.
Mason Peck, a mechanical engineer at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and his colleague Justin Atchison have designed a 1-centime...
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