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    DARPA wants better forecasts for near-Earth orbit space missions

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    Timothy J. Seppala
    Timothy J. Seppala
    07.18.2018

    DARPA, the government's mad science wing, wants "weather" forecasts for outer space like we've got here on terra firma. The idea is that as we're increasingly launching satellites into low-Earth orbit -- not to mention prepping for commercial spaceflight -- we'll need the ability to predict smaller space weather events as well as big ones.