NASA's SunRISE Mission: Six CubeSats to Decode the Sun's Most Violent Outbursts

NASA's SunRISE Mission: Six CubeSats to Decode the Sun's Most Violent Outbursts

SunRISE - Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment - uses an approach to astronomy that has been standard on the ground for decades but has never been attempted at this scale in space. Six shoebox-sized CubeSats will fly in a loose formation approximately 10 kilometres across, each carrying a radio antenna. By combining signals from all six spacecraft, scientists can synthesize a radio telescope with an effective aperture of 10 kilometres - far…