DVIDS - News - Navy civilian firefighters save NASA satellite
Civilian firefighters and their leaders based at Joint Base
Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB) helped save a $450 million
NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellite (MMS) satellite from
destruction.
The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a Solar Terrestrial
Probes mission comprising four identically instrumented spacecraft that
will use Earth’s magnetosphere as a laboratory to study the microphysics
of three fundamental plasma processes: magnetic reconnection, energetic
particle acceleration, and turbulence. These processes occur in all
astrophysical plasma systems but can be studied in situ only in our
solar system and most efficiently only in Earth’s magnetosphere, where
they control the dynamics of the geospace environment and play an
important role in the processes known as “space weather.”
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