Samara Scientists Are Preparing to Launch a Nanosatellite for Monitoring "Space Weather"

Scientists of Samara University manufactured and successfully tested the scientific and educational small spacecraft SamSat-Ionosphere, designed to study the plasma and magnetic shells of the Earth – the ionosphere and magnetosphere. The magnetosphere, like an umbrella, protects our planet from excessive solar activity – powerful solar wind currents, harsh X-rays and other space weather phenomena unfavorable to the inhabitants of the Earth.