How the weather in space can affect us on Earth

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"We'll have some very quiet years, very little space weather, and then it peaks then, at the peak of the cycle then we can have a lot of space weather events, maybe several a day," said Morgan. A 2025 estimate by Lloyds , external found that a severe space weather event could cost the world economy 2.4 trillion dollars ($2,400,000,000,000) over a five year period.

"This pre-warning is a huge mitigation of the danger posed by space weather," said Morgan. Richard Stone, from the space forecasting team, said it allowed them "to diagnose anything that's happening on the Sun's surface, provide a forecast and alert the relevant users to be able to take mitigating actions".

Dr Sharman said during the mission she was affected by radiation from outside the solar system, called galactic cosmic rays. "They come through the materials that spacecraft are made of," said Sharman.

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A 2025 estimate by Lloyds , external found that a severe space weather event could cost the world economy 2.4 trillion dollars ($2,400,000,000,000) over a five year period.
Richard Stone, from the space forecasting team, said it allowed them "to diagnose anything that's happening on the Sun's surface, provide a forecast and alert the relevant users to be able to take mitigating actions".
"This pre-warning is a huge mitigation of the danger posed by space weather," said Morgan.
"We'll have some very quiet years, very little space weather, and then it peaks then, at the peak of the cycle then we can have a lot of space weather events, maybe several a day," said Morgan.
Dr Sharman said during the mission she was affected by radiation from outside the solar system, called galactic cosmic rays.
"They come through the materials that spacecraft are made of," said Sharman.

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