Editor’s Note: Bob Kolasky is senior vice president for critical infrastructure at Exiger, a provider of supply chain and third-party risk analytics for the U.S. government and critical infrastructure sectors. He is also a senior fellow at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Infrastructure Security. He previously led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s … Read more
Editor’s Note: Bob Kolasky is senior vice president for critical infrastructure at Exiger, a provider of supply chain and third-party risk analytics for the U.S. government and critical infrastructure sectors. He is also a senior fellow at Auburn University’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Infrastructure Security. He previously led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s … Read more
Satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) can deviate hundreds of kilometers from their expected trajectory when bad space weather hits. The problem affects the International Space Station, China’s Tiangong Space Station and many Earth observation satellites that need to get up close to our planet. Experts say this positioning uncertainty increases the risk of dangerous … Read more
If solar scientists aren’t already eager to observe the sun as it reaches solar maximum in 2024, a newly discovered gamma-ray puzzle will add to that desire. While examining 14 years of data from NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope, a team of researchers found that during the last solar maximum in 2013 and 2014, the Sun’s … Read more
Scientists are building a digital model of space around Earth that goes beyond the state of the art to improve the prediction of solar storms and their effects on infrastructure. Nearly seventy years after the beginning of the Space Age, scientists’ insights are… space again is still very rude. Unlike Earth’s weather, which is now … Read more