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UNH Awarded $24 Million to Build Solar Wind Sensors for NOAA

The University of New Hampshire has been awarded $24.3 million by NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to build sensors for a high-priority alert system that will monitor the effects of space weather and the solar wind — caused by explosions on the sun —... Read More

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