{"id":521108,"date":"2026-04-09T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521108\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:48:11","slug":"dorking-scientists-to-help-launch-spacecraft-in-new-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521108\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorking scientists to help launch spacecraft in new mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A first-of-its-kind space mission is planning to reveal more about the magnetic bubble surrounding the earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Dorking, Surrey, will help to launch a spacecraft orbiting more than 120,000 km (74,564 miles) above the North Pole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is hoped the project will help to picture the edge of the magnetic bubble for the first time, while creating data to improve predictions of space weather for future space missions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Colin Forsyth, one of the investigators on the project, said: &#8220;We have never done anything like this before. We have lots of models and theoretical frameworks but now we get to see what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A first-of-its-kind space mission is planning to reveal more about the magnetic bubble surrounding the earth. Scientists from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-521108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}