Solar flares

Your credit card stops working, then your radio kicks out. What's happening? It could be a solar flare causing glitches in a satellite.

Syrstad compared it to measuring ripples on a lake, but the ripples this sensor sees in orbit will be miles apart. "And that is what impacts that region of space where we have, you know, really expensive satellites flying around. That's why employees at the [Space Dynamics Lab](https://www.sdl.usu.edu/) at Utah State University in Logan are investigating. [solar flare](https://www.ksl.com/article/15911859/solar-flare-erupts-creating-spectacular-images) causing glitches in a satellite. "In looking at the space weather system with other missions and through upper atmospheric models, we've realized that it's not all about the sun and that the Earth actually does play a role," said Syrstad. To figure out what role the Earth plays, the camera will watch for waves that solar winds make against and through the Earth's atmosphere.